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ReadThis · 10-02-2013, 04:55 PM

Thanks for the reply.

The 'select all" would be while reading a book itself, not selecting a group of books.

Calibre allows for highlighting and scrolling, but it takes a long time to get to the end of a long book. Minutes, in fact. But I can copy the text.

I read business books and PDFs differently from most. I try to dump the text in a text document, then carve out what I want to save, deleting the rest as I go. By the time I'm done I have scraps of notes in the document, and then when I reread, I can get the key points in a minute or two and I'm done.

To do this I need to be able to get all the text out of that book and into a Word doc, etc.

Thanks again.

10-02-2013, 04:55 PM	#3
ReadThis Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2013 Device: none	Thanks for the reply. The 'select all" would be while reading a book itself, not selecting a group of books. Calibre allows for highlighting and scrolling, but it takes a long time to get to the end of a long book. Minutes, in fact. But I can copy the text. I read business books and PDFs differently from most. I try to dump the text in a text document, then carve out what I want to save, deleting the rest as I go. By the time I'm done I have scraps of notes in the document, and then when I reread, I can get the key points in a minute or two and I'm done. To do this I need to be able to get all the text out of that book and into a Word doc, etc. Thanks again.