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I need to open up my Windows 8 Kindle app and while reading a book, I want to cut and paste certain passages to a Word document. I did this before a while back but can't seem to do it again (or remember how I did it before). I used the dual screen that Windows 8 allows and then highlighted the passages and somehow copy and pasted them into the Word document. I think I used the Ctrl+c to copy and the Ctrl+v to paste, but that doesn't work. Any suggestions?
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In your Amazon account when you purchase a kindle book, download it "your PC" I was unable to copy and paste when downloading electronic books to my windows 8,10, to my tablet, but when I selected download to "your PC " it worked without a problem. The kindle for PC app has a bluish background, thats that app I use, the kindle app with the black background would not allow me to copy and paste, but the kindle for PC app does
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It is a crap solution but if you select and search you can then copy from the search window.
Why Amazon wants to make it that hard I don't know. The old copy function included the reference which was quite useful.
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You can't do it directly from the desktop reader app for Windows 8.
You can, however, do one of the following things instead:
1. Use Kindle Cloud Reader
Highlight the text you want to copy.
Go to kindle.amazon.com/your_highlights and find the highlight in question.
Copy and paste the text from there.
Of course, use this within the limits of copyright, etc.
See this related question about essentially the same thing.
2. Use the Windows 7 app
If you can stand the non-Metro layout, you can run the Windows 7 app on Windows 8 (see this discussion. The Windows 7 app allows copying: when you highlight text and right click, "Copy" is one of the options:
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