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I know Calibre can seem overwhelming and when technical people try to explain things, they sometimes go way over people's heads, so hopefully this will make it easier to follow:
1. Open Calibre
2. Click the arrow next to "Convert books."
3. Select "Create catalog of books in your library."
The "Generate catalog" window will open.
4. Click the tab labeled "CSV/XML Options."
You will see a list of field names (i.e parts of your list of books). They should all be hi-lighted.
5. Click each field except "Title" and be sure it is no longer hi-lighted. You should now see only "Title" hi-lighted.
6. Click "OK."
After a few seconds (or minutes depending on the size of your catalog), Calibre will show you a dialog box. On Windows 7 it is titled "Browse for Folder." It may have a different title for you.
7. Select a location to save your database. I find it easiest to select the "Desktop."
8. Go to the "Desktop" or wherever you saved the file.
You should see a file called "My Books.CSV."
9. Double click on "My Books.CSV."
Excel should open with the list.
10. Hi-light the first column in Excel, until the end of your list of books.
11. Press "Ctrl + C" (i.e. Press the "Ctrl" key and the "C" key at the same time.
12. Open Word.
13. Press "Ctrl + V" (i.e. Press the "Ctrl" key and the "V" key at the same time.
You should now have a text only list of your books.
I write professionally and at one point took a course in technical writing, learning how to write clear instructions. Ordinarily, I would have done that with screen shots as well, but it's really easy to follow I think and I hope it makes it clear for you how to do this. As I said, I know it can be frustrating sometimes when people try to help because they don't always make things easy for a non techie person to follow (not that this is intentional, but programmers just speak like programmers which is why technical writers are so well paid -- they translate what the programmers say into language everyone else can follow, though personally I found the whole thing to be really boring so I've stuck with slightly less boring content writing.). Let me know if you have any trouble.
Eric
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