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Poll: Do you select text while reading?
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Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#12I don't, but I've always wished there were a way to bookmark position within a page.
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#13Yes I do, and I really notice it when using O'Reilly's Safari bookshelf. Whenever you select text it pops up a window asking if you want to highlight or make a note, so irritating! If that mouse is in my hand I always select text that I am reading. I am not sure why. Perhaps it's just a reflex so I can keep track of where I am in the text. With so much noise on web pages, it must help. I'll have to test if I do this as often on other things. I know I have accidentally cut and pasted previous commands in a terminal and have been very upset with the consequences. I'm just sloppy with that mouse and middle button I guess. But those darn new line characters on a paste can be catastrophic.
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#14I do it as a nervous habit.
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#16I just spastically double-click words all over the page while I'm reading. No real rhyme or reason to it, it doesn't help me read or anything. It's mostly just an unconscious tick.
I do this too sometimes. Sometimes I accidentally click a link and that is when I notice... otherwise it is mostly unconscious.
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#17I usually don't need to unless the design makes it hard for me to keep my place.
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#18Interesting! I've never heard of this or even seen anyone do it.
I've watched people who do this (highlighting text and moving the cursor around while reading) and it bugs the heck out of me.
I wonder if there's some kind of app to be made for these people, so that text moves around or changes color when their eyes track toward the text. (This would be horrible, to my taste, but you never know)
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#19No
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#20Select to copy, of course.