How to read ebooks in continuous scrolling mode and save highlights?

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Published on 2013-04-02T16:01:14Z Indexed on 2013/10/28 9:57 UTC
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I'm looking for a way to manage my academic workflow for reading e-books in .epub or .mobi formats on OSX.

My requirements: - continuous scrolling mode - ability to highlight text (e.g. in yellow, using a single keyboard shortcut) - ideally, the ability to make annotations as well

Amazon Kindle reader for OSX offers annotating, but not continuous scrolling mode. Calibre offers continuous scrolling mode, but does not allow highlighting or annotating.

Is there a solution that will allow me to do this?

I'm also open to workarounds, e.g. using Calibre to convert to HTML, then reading the book in a browser---but I would still need the ability to highlight using a single keystroke.

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