How to Select All the text in a Mobi document?

mb2u · 12-31-2013, 04:02 AM

In most text documents (docx, doc, rtf, txt, etc) you just use the End button and some combination of Control and Shift and you are at the bottom of the document with all text highlighted so you can copy it. I can't see how to do it in Mobi. Is it impossible?

Ken Maltby · 12-31-2013, 04:10 AM

Sounds like a feature for an editor not a reader. Text selection in readers is normally only for a small part or single word, for use in a dictionary or for extraction as a note/annotation. How would you use it?

Luck;
Ken

mb2u · 12-31-2013, 04:31 AM

I tried Calibre and it worked very well going from Mobi to RTF which can be read by my Kobo ereader. I don't see a single error yet. Wonderful.

12-31-2013, 04:02 AM	#1
mb2u Enthusiast Posts: 25 Karma: 6052 Join Date: Jul 2013 Device: Kobo Touch and Mini	How to Select All the text in a Mobi document? In most text documents (docx, doc, rtf, txt, etc) you just use the End button and some combination of Control and Shift and you are at the bottom of the document with all text highlighted so you can copy it. I can't see how to do it in Mobi. Is it impossible?

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12-31-2013, 04:10 AM	#2
Ken Maltby Wizard Posts: 4,466 Karma: 6900052 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Heart of Texas Device: Boox Note2, AuraHD, PDA,	Sounds like a feature for an editor not a reader. Text selection in readers is normally only for a small part or single word, for use in a dictionary or for extraction as a note/annotation. How would you use it? Luck; Ken

12-31-2013, 04:31 AM	#3
mb2u Enthusiast Posts: 25 Karma: 6052 Join Date: Jul 2013 Device: Kobo Touch and Mini	I tried Calibre and it worked very well going from Mobi to RTF which can be read by my Kobo ereader. I don't see a single error yet. Wonderful.

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