Copy-paste Work
Copied text to include additional source info, which is another interesting feature. Click the Include an informational comment checkbox to enable that feature. The pasted text will then include extra “Copied from…” info that cites the website and URL from which you copied the content.
The Paste on middle click option enables middle-click paste functionality for copied content. Pressing the middle mouse button (scroll wheel) will paste copied content into website text boxes open in your browser.
However, that feature won’t work for software outside the browser you added Auto Copy.
Selecting Press Ctrl key while selecting to disable the Auto Copy option activates a hotkey for temporarily disabling the extension’s automatic copying. By default, that key is set to Ctrl. Holding Ctrl while selecting text will disable automatic copying with that setting selected. However, you can choose alternative Shift and Alt key combinations on that setting’s drop-down menu.
How to Automatically Copy Selected Text With Copy on Select
Auto Copy isn’t available for Firefox, but Copy on Select is a similar, albeit more basic, extension you can add to Mozilla’s flagship browser. However, this add-on has zero additional options and features. Select the Add to Firefox option on the Copy to Select download page to try out this extension.
Copy on Select works much the same as Auto Copy. Open a webpage, and select some text to copy on it with your mouse’s cursor. Unlike Auto Copy, this add-on doesn’t have any alert on copy notifications.
Then open some software to paste in the content. You can select the Paste options within many software packages, or press the universal Ctrl + V hotkey to insert the text from the clipboard.
Copy Text in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox Without Pressing Ctrl + C
Now you can instantly copy the text on webpages with the Auto Copy and Copy to Select browser extensions. Those extensions provide a more convenient, automatic way to copy to the clipboard. Auto Copy’s options for copying plain text, adding source info, and middle-mouse button pasting are also useful extra features.
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However, it doesn’t offer some basic features for organizing and managing notebooks, such as reordering pages, inserting new pages between existing ones, and exporting individual pages rather than entire notebooks, etc.
The product page doesn’t offer further details on the future software update, so it’s not clear which tools will be added. We’ve contacted Amazon to see if the company is willing to say more at this point.
Another part of the “coming soon” message, the ability to send documents to Scribe from within Microsoft Word, is not a new promise. That was touted as coming in early 2023 when the device was announced.
Although the basic experience of writing in Kindle Scribe is mostly satisfying and solid, the lack of simple file management features has been a glaring omission in my initial usage of the device. Other Kindle Scribe users who’ve responded to my Dec. 9 post, which mentioned these issues, have been similarly disappointed.
One Kindle Scribe user pointed out, for example, that someone who creates a 200-page notebook would need to swipe 200 times to get to the first page, then another 200 to go back. In contrast, the Scribe and other Kindle devices let users quickly scrub through Kindle books and PDFs to jump from one section to another.
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