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Two Newbie Questions
I'm new to using Calibre, and I have one question about how to use it.
When viewing an ebook within the Calibre E-book Viewer, how can I "copy" the text of the entire e-book in one go? If I right mouse click onto any part of the text, and select the "copy" option, I notice that only text highlighted in yellow will be copied onto the clipboard for pasting. So the question really is, how can I highlight the entire ebook text in yellow without manually scrolling through the entire ebook? If possible, I would like to retain the original formating of paragraphs during this process. I am hoping to find a "copy all" text option, in addition to the existing "copy" option. Many thanks for any tips. Last edited by schwine; 07-05-2012 at 01:33 PM. Reason: Solved one problem |
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What are you going to do with the copied text? Presumbaly you are going to paste it somewhere, so in the absence of a "copy all" option maybe there is another way to achieve your goal.
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Try to convert it to RTF. Then open it in Microsoft Word. I'm not sure why you want to copy it. It is simpler to just convert it into another format that let's you copy it, like RTF. ![]() |
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Another alternative is to read the Epub using the Firefox EPUBReader extension. IMO it has better text selection facilities than Calibre's EPUB Reader - eg Select All via Ctrl/A.
If you install Calibre's OpenWith plugin for then you can fire up Firefox from within Calibre But you may lose formatting when you cut & paste, in which case use RTF as suggested by fullybook BR Last edited by BetterRed; 07-16-2012 at 07:51 PM. |
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