I’ve found that extracting notes and highlights to be quite easy. If you plug your kindle into your computer, all your notes and highlights are contained in a text file. You can then paste into Word, search for, and manipulate the text however you want.

If you want to extract a passage from a book, this is far easier than if you had a regular book, in which case you’d have to retype the passage yourself.

I think Seal missed one feature. When you are within a particular book, you CAN look at the notes from just that book, and you can click a hyperlink to go directly to the passage.

I actually find this much less tedious than flipping through a paper book to find a passage I’ve underlined.

However, making annotations is horrible, and I usually do that on my computer..

All in all, I think it’s a great value considering all the free public domain books you can read on it. You also get free internet. (Which is very clunky but free and I’ve utilized it quite a few times)

If there were some kind of “comment mode” that would let you cycle through your comments and see a large portion of the surrounding text, that would be brilliant!