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Originally Posted by Krystl
For this, I would ideally be able to underline/highlight and take notes which could then be exported to my pc. Is this possible? I know I can take in book notes, etc. but can they be exported for further use? It would completely smooth my workflow--when I read with regular books, typing them, etc takes so much more time! I see this as the BEST reason for me to go electronic.
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You can
almost easily do all that.
Almost means it's not
quite simple.
Exporting notes is both an automatic task and a manual task, especially if you want to save whole paragraphs.
The first oddity comes when you need to highlight paragraphs in order either to save them for future use, or to annotate them right away.
If the text to highlight displays through several screenpages you then have to use a smaller/larger charracter size.
If text you want to quote is real huge, it will then be easier to quote two smaller contiguous excerpts rather than a larger one.
Then you'll need the Reader software to extract and save your notes to your computer. (Calibre does not extract T1 notes yet.)
Automatic extraction is very easy. Open the Reader app, go to the Reader tab, then highlight the book whose notes you want to save, then "copy to library" (injunction may be different, since I use a French version of the Reader app), then open up the book's image, then export your notes (using the proper icon).
The Reader app saves your notes in a nicely formatted RTF file, which is fine. And all the long excerpts are truncated (longer than 100 characters or so), which is much less fine!
Then comes the manual extraction.
Fortunately, you can display all your notes from the adjacent button. What you have to do is:
1) go to each incomplete note,
2) copy the highlighted text, i.e. the very text you had made a note of,
3) paste it in lieu of your truncated note (within in the RTF file).
(You may enjoy a Kafkaian hell of a time trying to copy-and-paste longer notes. Better wear neat glasses.)
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I have heard that the Sony software is less than ideal and use calibre on my pc already. I read that using the software forces a "sync" that would drive me nuts!  Is this true and would it be necessary to use the Sony software to sync notes?
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Just forget the "sync" feature, just do the semi-automatic way I just referred to. And everything else may (i.e. must) be Calibre's lot.
The Reader app is just terrible.
BTW, the Reader for Mac app also forbids you to save several books in a row: each new book saved erases its predecessor (this must be a bug, I guess).
The Reader for PC app reportedly has another bug that may drive you nuts: some users claim it duplicates, triplicates, multiplicates books in the T1 when you transfer them from the Reader app.
(I never encountered such a bug with the Reader for Mac app.)
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how large a highlighted area? character based? unlimited within reason (I'm not talking whole pages here)
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Whole paragraphs go
almost fine.
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can you highlight "across the page" in one step?
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You can highlight "within the page" easily (see above). Just wait for the first word to be highlighted, then roll the highlight down to the end of your excerpt.
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can you export them per drag & drop or only with the Sony software or not at all?
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No D&G, only the Sony software will do the job right now (hoping I got everything fine).
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is there another method that makes it more effecient? (just to give another possibility for those who have figured a work-around)
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I would love to hear of anything less tedious, that's for sure.
The T1, however, is definitely the best-of-breed eReader when it comes to
reading books. The Sony team will have to amend its weird method of
(not-)handling collections, though.
