Questions from a new Kindle book reader.

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I want to use EBook/technology to speed up my writing and I will explain what I mean.
I'm not a professional writer but I am writing something about my life for my children to read if they wish when I’m gone. I keep coming to things that I experienced such as the Second World War and I like to write a few words on matters such as the enormous causalities.
The problem is that between me reading something from a book or the Internet and then moving to my keyboard I have forgotten what I read. Maybe it’s connected to my dyslexia.
However, if I’m using something such as Wikipedia I can cut and paste pieces obviously noting the origination.
I am not well versed in new technology, in fact I’m a trifle frightened of it and am getting on a bit but eventually I got onto the Internet and found it much easier than I thought I would.
I am now set up with what I think may be called a, “Kindle link” which allowed me to purchase my first Kindle book.
I do not intend to buy an EBook or Kindle reader at the moment because my primary ambition is to be able to download such books as I need and extract the information that interests me. That’s where I met my first hurdle because I couldn’t work out how to abstract the written words from the Kindle book so I had to use Snipping tool and work with the end result by pasting the result under what I am typing.
To cut a long story short I would like to be able to cut and paste pieces from an EBook/Kindle book onto a Word document so my question has to be. “Is that possible?”