It isn't showing up for me either in Kindle books. I wonder if it has anything to do with the way Kindle takes over the entire screen. The "Speak Screen" function doesn't work with Kindle either, so You can't start a book reading and lock the device.
Richard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 6:41 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Selecting text in a kindle book Well, all I can say is that I have text selection in my rotor, and when I flipped around the rotor with the Kindle book open, it didn't show up. Therefore, I assume it will not appear in the Kindle app. I don't know why this book would've been an exception. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 21, 2015, at 12:37 AM, christopher hallsworth > <challswor...@icloud.com> wrote: > > I thought text selection would work for any text fields, even read only ones, > regardless of the app in use? >> On 21 Sep 2015, at 05:05, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I was not surprised to see that I could not select text with the new text >> selection feature in iOS 9 when reading a Kindle book. Kendall hasn't been >> updated for iOS 9. I hope, when it is updated, they will recognize the ease >> of this feature. But I'm not going to hold my breath. This is, after all, >> Amazon we are talking about. >> I don't remember the somewhat convoluted method you're supposed to use when >> selecting text in a Kindle book. I double tap for the menu, and nothing >> jumped out at me. 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