The Kindle format is unfit for reading technology books

The Kindle format is unfit for reading technology books using the Windows 7 Kinder Reader for the PC.

I am using the latest version of the Kindle Reader application for the PC on an O'Reilly book. Apparently, every time you highlight text this causes the reader to update a file on the hard drive. As I go further in the book, each save gets progressively longer lasting as long as 15 - 20 seconds. During that time the reader is locked and cannot be scrolled or have any other type of action taken with it. This indicates to me that whatever is being saved each time is getting larger or opening the file that the save appends to takes longer to open, edit, and save.

When highlighting you cannot control the exact text you want to include. For example:

public List<Activity> CurrentActivities

I cannot just select Activity to highlight because it is connected by non-space characters to everything that comes before or after it. So I have to accept List<Activity> as the text to be highlighted.

When you copy and paste code into an IDE (mine is Visual Studio 2010), it loses its formatting and it brings along a citation line of text that has to be removed for each paste.