Calibre manual and selecting multiple books

MarjaE · 08-22-2018, 05:11 PM

The Calibre Manual implies that selecting multiple books requires users to be able to use keyboard and mouse at the same time:

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/gui.html

Quote:

* You can perform Actions on sets of books. To select multiple books you can either:

* Keep the Ctrl key pressed and click on the books you want selected.

* Keep the Shift key pressed and click on the starting and ending book of a range of books you want selected.

However-- at least for me-- it's possible to select multiple books by clicking and dragging.

The manual should probably mention that.

And-- at least in MacOS-- it's impossible to use Sticky Keys for keyboard+multiple click combinations.

BetterRed · 08-22-2018, 06:46 PM

FTR - in Windows calibre:

You can select a set of consecutive books with the keyboard by: selecting the a book and then holding the Shift+↓ keys (or Shift+↑). Pretty sure that works on MacOS and most (all ?) Linuxes.

What you can't do with the keyboard directly is to select multiple non-consecutive books, i.e. hunt-and-peck/cherry-pick. But you can Mark the books you want, then Show the Marked books, and then do a Select All. I can't recall the keyboard shortcuts; I have the Mark tool in the book list context menu, so I drive it from there. That will work irrespective of the OS.

BR

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BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,556 Karma: 26954694 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	FTR - in Windows calibre: You can select a set of consecutive books with the keyboard by: selecting the a book and then holding the Shift+↓ keys (or Shift+↑). Pretty sure that works on MacOS and most (all ?) Linuxes. What you can't do with the keyboard directly is to select multiple non-consecutive books, i.e. hunt-and-peck/cherry-pick. But you can Mark the books you want, then Show the Marked books, and then do a Select All. I can't recall the keyboard shortcuts; I have the Mark tool in the book list context menu, so I drive it from there. That will work irrespective of the OS. BR