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Originally Posted by ReadThis
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.
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Read This - are you saying that Cmd+A does not work on the calibre ebook viewer on a mac - if so then that's surely a bug.
Meanwhile you could convert the book to RTF, and read that in Word.
If you do a search for "copy on select for mac" it may give you some alternatives to do something like what I do with a a gadget called Click.To on Windows
Basically anything I highlight anywhere gets copied to my clipboard (which is extended and filtered by another gadget which you may not need on a Mac), so at the end of reading a text I have a stack of snippets in the clipboard, which I paste en-masse into a new entry in the relevant Evernote notebook - I do any tidy ups there.
My e-reading is similar to yours, politics, business, finance, law, economics etc - I prefer paper when reading for pure pleasure.
BR