I managed once in Opera to select and copy some text from a web page. But usualy, I get scrolling.

How can one select text in Opera?

It's difficult. You have to "double-tap" very quickly at the beginning of your selection. This will prevent scrolling and make opera select the text you draw your stylus over instead.

Although I know how it works, it takes me 2 or 3 tries each time. tap-tap, draw, hold stylus on selection until context menu pops up, select copy...