Answers.Body: <p>You <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1276426-kindle-app-copy-paste-issue" rel="nofollow noreferrer">can't do it directly from the desktop reader app for Windows 8</a>.</p>
  
  <p>You can, however, do one of the following things instead:</p>
  
  <h1>1. Use Kindle Cloud Reader</h1>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Highlight the text you want to copy.</li>
  <li>Go to <a href="https://kindle.amazon.com/your_highlights" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://kindle.amazon.com/your_highlights</a> and find the highlight in question.</li>
  <li>Copy and paste the text from there.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Of course, use this within the limits of copyright, etc.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/13/extracting-notes-and-highlighting-from-kindle-books">See this related question about essentially the same thing</a>.</p>
  
  <h1>2. Use the Windows 7 app</h1>
  
  <p>If you can stand the non-Metro layout, you can run the Windows 7 app on Windows 8 (<a href="https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/a/972/38">see this discussion</a>.  The Windows 7 app allows copying: when you highlight text and right click, "Copy" is one of the options:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/7xkyH.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
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Answers.Text: On version 1.10.8 you can't copy anymore. "Copy" has been replaced by "Search".
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Answers.Body: <p>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</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>It is a crap solution but if you select and search you can then copy from the search window.</p>
  
  <p>Why Amazon wants to make it that hard I don't know. The old copy function included the reference which was quite useful.</p>
  
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Body: <p>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 <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>c</kbd> to copy and the <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>v</kbd> to paste, but that doesn't work. Any suggestions? </p>
  
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Title: How do I copy and paste text from Windows 8 Kindle app book to Microsoft Word
UserDisplayName: Carlben
ThreadText: # How do I copy and paste text from Windows 8 Kindle app book to Microsoft Word
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-08-28)
  
  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?
  
  **Tags:** kindle, windows
  
  
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  ## 3 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2014-08-29. Score: 1
  
  You [can't do it directly from the desktop reader app for Windows 8](http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1276426-kindle-app-copy-paste-issue).
  
  You can, however, do one of the following things instead:
  
  # 1. Use Kindle Cloud Reader
  
  * Highlight the text you want to copy.
  * Go to <https://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](https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/13/extracting-notes-and-highlighting-from-kindle-books).
  
  # 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](https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/a/972/38). The Windows 7 app allows copying: when you highlight text and right click, "Copy" is one of the options:
  
  ![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/7xkyH.png)
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: On version 1.10.8 you can't copy anymore. "Copy" has been replaced by "Search".  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2016-02-25. Score: 0
  
  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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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2016-01-06. Score: 0
  
  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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