Just and FYI - see the article here: http://realtech.burningbird.net/web/ebooks/kindle-clipping-limits
I was a college student once, really, I was. Actually for many years, but that's another story.Scheherazade said:At first I thought highlighting and clipping were seperate, but apparently just highlighting also copies the text into your clippings text file. At the -very- least they need to change this practice and allow us to highlight the entire book if we want. It's kind of fun to go through and see all the quotes I've highlighted, but putting a limit on it for the sake of that is detrimental in the extreme. I guess I've been lucky in that I only had to read specific chapters in Kindle books for classes that required heavy highlighting.
I think you can still highlight, it just won't copy the text into the clippings file. I've heard of people not knowing things weren't copied until they looked there and there was some kind of message instead of the highlighted passage. This was on the K1, though, so I don't know if it's changed for the K2.Scheherazade said:At first I thought highlighting and clipping were seperate, but apparently just highlighting also copies the text into your clippings text file. At the -very- least they need to change this practice and allow us to highlight the entire book if we want. It's kind of fun to go through and see all the quotes I've highlighted, but putting a limit on it for the sake of that is detrimental in the extreme. I guess I've been lucky in that I only had to read specific chapters in Kindle books for classes that required heavy highlighting.
I wouldn't be surprised if they modified the limits for the DX.koolmnbv said:If this is the case and students find they can't clip as much as they need to I see it being a big issue. Especially with those colleges that purchased the DX for the students. They aren't going to like the fact that they purchased so many K-DX's and the students can't get the full use from them.
Do you know the person who owns this site, a&h? I'm a little leary of downloading software from an angelfire site.artsandhistoryfan said:So, I asked Shelley to try this
http://www.angelfire.com/ego2/idleloop/mbp_reader.html
This extracts the text portions from the mbp file.
marianner,marianner said:Do you know the person who owns this site, a&h? I'm a little leary of downloading software from an angelfire site.
Also, the more reassuring thing is he is linked as a Reference for the wiki article.marianner said:Thanks![]()
I agree. I am only at 44% of 5463 locations.marianner said:I suspect that the limit is actually some number of bytes copied, not number of clippings.