Unfortunately the Surface 3 is a not usable device

You might find Calibre useful. http://blog.calibre-ebook.com/2013/12/calibres-ebook-editor.html

Hi Dax,

thanks for your reply, but unfortunately Calibre is far away from being useful in Highlighting Text and Exporting them.

I tried it and the only way is to mark text and copy them to clipboard. Thats really not the way I want to read my text and jump from one application to another.

I hope so much, that Drawboard gets new features and supports ePub and export-functions. According to Drawboards User-Hub both topics are "Under Review" (https://drawboard.uservoice.com/forums/251835-features).

Today I searched for apps and found four possible apps on MacOS. That's weird. I'm really not an Apple-Fan (really not) but they got those apps. And you can choose the best one for you. I would be happy if there is only one App for Windows or Windows Tablet that support that features.

I'm going to use Citavi for the next time. It's much more powerful and therefore a bit slow on Surface 3 but It's the only possible way to get a user-friendly, reading and highlight-experience on Surface 3 at the moment.

http://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/132/are-there-any-wysiwyg-editors-for-epub-books  some more capable, and less capable but perhaps easier applications to do what you want - and quite a few of those projects take note of user suggestions so   jump in =]

I'm late with my answer, sorry for this. But this is really not what I'm looking for. I don't need an editor for epubs. I need a software especially for the Surface 3 for reading, marking and highlighting. Drawboard is the best one atm and hopefully will be better in the future. Nevertheless  Windows 10 on Surface 3 has a long way to go to become a usefull operating system as a Laptop, a Tablet and a Stylus Device.

But thanks, for your answer and your effort.

You seem to be limiting your search for an application that fits your needs from the curated Store alone; you do know you can install any (windows or linux) software you want on a surface 3/pro 3 don't you? I'd venture to say that if the specific feature you want in an epub reader does not exist out there  it is hardly a reflection on the surface 3's usability ^^

There are many projects out there, with a fair amount of participation by their users - if you fail to find the exact feature you want in any of the currently available, probably hundreds of epub readers out there, you could try to suggest the features you want with some of these projects. Or even suggest them to the team behind your current favorite Drawboard from the Store.

If your aim is to, in a single copy and paste,  transplant all your highlighted text into a new document, this is an option I cannot find in the readers I use today either; for this you need to firstly convert your epub into a document usable in Word for example and then;

http://blogs.technet.com/b/hub/archive/2011/02/24/copy-all-highlighted-text-in-your-word-document.aspx

I am there with ya. I have pretty extreme buyers remorse after getting my surface. I got the keyboard, pen, dongle on the TV with 64GB of storage and it is almost useless when it comes to doing a lot of things.

Notes are ok, Drawboard is pretty great, but for everything else, it has been a nightmare.

The absolute worst is that I cannot even browse the web with it. The CPU spikes, memory fills up and it is just slow as hell. Even OneDrive, which used to be great when it would allow for a complete list of files with a check for available online vs offline only, is broken with Win 10. It is almost like the device gets worse and worse every day. I now have to turn WiFi off when it sleeps to save battery, but then it doesn't always automatically connect. They keyboard sometimes disappears and needs to be detached/reattached and I still have that stupid "power connected, battery not charging" issue. I never had that on any device ever. Not a laptop, tablet, or phone. Now every time I plug it in, I have to check to make sure it is charging properly.

I have a Samsung tablet and went back to that for pretty much everything. I use the surface to check email in Outlook, and I use Word and Excel.

The part that ticks me off the most is that they are supposed to be using this as their flagship product. It is pushed on the NFL and all over television, huge marketing campaigns, and they are screwing it up. I had faith that Microsoft would focus on the issues because of the visibility, but it seems they already moved on. I am sure with the Surface 4, they will talk about how great it is in comparison and leave the Surface 3 folk out to dry.

Hi puffthefish,

thanks for your reply. It's good (or not) to hear, that someone else got the same issues. 

I recognized, that browsing with Chrome (or Iron in my case) is OK an my surface. I installed it 2 days ago and it seems to be lightweight and zoomable. It hast a good starttime and somewhat enough apps.

A realy nice software is EpicPen. It is an open source tool. Feel free to google it and try it. It is in my opinon a good tool for a tablet/stylus windows-device. But it is unbelievable, that this tools are not publish and supported by Microsoft.

It seems I will leave OneNote, because Microsoft seems to plan to force die ON-users to use their cloud-services. Maybe there is any other free tool to use and has a stylus support.

I also recognized my battery is empty if I dont turn off wifi. This is not a main-issue for me, but it fits to my overall view on this device.

I cant tell that I have the same keyboard-problems. My keyboards works fine and is a good piece of hardware but I got those "battery not charging"-issues with my dockingstation. 

I hope you are not right with your forethoughts about the further support of Surface 3, but atm nobody talks about Surface 2, so maybe you are right =(.

In the end I hope Windows 10 will be a good and usable OS and let me forget those problems.

That was odd, I posted and it disappeared.

To paraphrase what I said before:

That epic pen app is pretty great. Thanks for the suggestion, it inspired me to have another look at what I can do with the Surface and between Epic Pen and the wireless display adapter adapterI can leverage the Surface for presentations. So I reconfigured the Surface for a work tool, put on Telnet, Remote Desktop, VPN and FTP clients. I installed Fing and a Wifi scanner. I already have a USB to Serial adapter, now I picked up USB to Ethernet and it looks like this might become a pretty decent tool for work.

Maybe there is hope after all

Hi puffthefish,

good to hear. I already believe, that in the end this device is good, but it is released to early.

Try another great App : Microsoft Journal. It seems to be preinstalled since Windows XP and I never recognized it.

Journal is a lightweight OneNote and could maybe help me to leave OneNote.

Try it =)