I do it to make sure I followed what is written.
Poll: Do you select text while reading?
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Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#212Yes sir.
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes this is definitely what I do too. I also tend to repeatedly tap the paragraph on the trackpad, so that fits well with your nervous habit analogy.
Yep, same. Sites that do things like auto-search highlighted words drive me nuts because of it.
And those sites that have popup ads on certain words - so annoying!
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#214> Yes, as a placeholder to pick up reading later
This is my answer, and it's a habit I picked up while using Skype, since they don't track my position very well when new messages comes in. (OS X)
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#215I only do it when someone else is looking at the same screen as me, and there is a lot of text (not watching video together, but reading article). It's like a highlighter to coordinate reading.
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#216When people see that I highlight text while I'm reading, they always want to know what practical reason it serves. The simplest answer is that it kind of helps me track the text, but it's less than that. It also isn't quite just a nervous habit. The only description that makes sense to me is that it feels like a physical connection to the page. More like spinning a pen, or rolling an object in your hand while you thi…
Yes! I sometime highlight, but often just hovering the cursor over the sentences even words around, like I am rolling pen or something, shaking legs or body, when I am thinking.
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#217When people see that I highlight text while I'm reading, they always want to know what practical reason it serves. The simplest answer is that it kind of helps me track the text, but it's less than that. It also isn't quite just a nervous habit. The only description that makes sense to me is that it feels like a physical connection to the page. More like spinning a pen, or rolling an object in your hand while you thi…
Good call. Like how I used to drag highlight boxes on the desktop when I was thinking of what to do next. I never wanted to select anything, I just liked to do it.
I used to drag windows around in a similar manner... until windows 7 decided two or tree back and forths indicated "minimize everything else".
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#218Cool, I thought about asking this :)
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#219I do this, because it helps me remember important points, cause I tend to read highlighted points twiceover or more.
Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#220I used to.
But I stopped selecting text right after... perhaps I began using a WebKit based browser. Sometimes, text selection in WebKit based browsers looks ugly and weird compared with that in Firefox, however, these browsers are just damned fast.