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FBReader seems pretty good. It has the ability to highlight/copy text. Although it doesn't have the standard cut/copy/paste dialogs, you can still use the keyboard shortcuts and 3rd-button paste with it (on desktop x-windows at least. Not sure about the PDA versions).
FBReader seems pretty good. It has the ability to highlight/copy text. Although it doesn't have the standard cut/copy/paste dialogs, you can still use the keyboard shortcuts and 3rd-button paste with it (on desktop x-windows at least. Not sure about the PDA versions).
Thanks David. I've got this install, but I can't find an option to highlight. When I select text and then right click in just unselects the text.
Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear enough. As I tried to explain, there are no right-click menus in the program. But you can use the standard crtl+c keyboard shortcut to copy the text to the clipboard, and highlight and paste with the middle-mouse button works too. You need to enable text selection in the preferences first though.
Last edited by David the H.; 02-28-2009 at 11:02 AM.
Reason: fixed typo
Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear enough. As I tried to explain, there are no right-click menus in the program. But you can use the standard crtl+c keyboard shortcut to copy the text to the clipboard, and highlight and paste with the middle-mouse button works too. You need to enable text selection in the preferences first though.
Seems I'm the one that didn't make it clear. What I meant with highlight is like I would on a paper with a highlighter.
Ah, sorry. I thought you just wanted to be able to extract text from various formats. Actually I don't have a lot of experience with FBReader, but I don't believe it has highlighter/notation ability.
The only other program I know that has something like that is kde4's okular. It seems to have some nice annotation features like highlighting and it says it can handle various ebook formats.
Last edited by David the H.; 02-28-2009 at 11:35 AM.
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