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Originally Posted by 2good4hisowngood
I use Calibre to store all of my IT books, [...] The text search function is critical for this use case, and it works, but I often find myself on pages where I know I'm close to what I need, but having to review each instance of the phrase is time consuming.
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Calibre 6.0 added in Full Text Search:
You can have Calibre "Index" the book, then you can mass search across your entire collection.
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Originally Posted by 2good4hisowngood
The epub reader (please let me know if I'm missing a feature). I was using the firefox find feature as an example. As far as I can see, I can run a search, and then I can go result-by-result through the document, but cannot click an option like a check box to have it also highlight all instances of the search term visible in the document (as opposed to the single selected result from the list).
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Uhhh, EPUBReader, the Firefox addon, has been abandoned for a very long time. (Edit: See mikelv post below.)
If you want a modern reader that works on the computer, check out:
It also has a feature where you can Search, then see all hits within a book:
(Thorium is produced by Readium—the company that worked on the actual EPUB3 renderer used by many devices.)
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Originally Posted by 2good4hisowngood
I've just started using epubs as an alternative to pdfs, and I love it.
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Welcome to the world of true ebooks! EPUBs are the best.
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Originally Posted by 2good4hisowngood
[W]hile working on my classwork, it is very easy to find relevant books in my Calibre library to then reference in my papers.
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If you want even more info on more efficient citations + searching through your collection, see some of my recent posts here:
And if you want to know all the in-depth details on why PDFs are pretty crap compared to EPUB... see my recent posts: