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I don't understand how people do this unless they just read really slowly. It's maddening to try to do and have it actually be where you're reading. It also kills me that HN seems to embrace this practice, yet is also so incredibly skeptical of SSS and dyslexia.
Unless you write one-sentence paragraphs, this turns out not to slow things down at all. (I read at a "normal" pace and sometimes do this.)
Holy fuck, I thought it was just me. I think I do it more with black on white. I find it difficult to focus reading from a large bright screen. I do find I end up not bothering to read a lot of articles I'd like to online, end up either bookmarking and ignoring, or just skimming over. Think it's because reading long articles in a particular layout is a chore. A layout browser extension might help, I should give it a…
While pair programming, it tends to drive the other person nuts.
[1] http://www.cooper.com/journal/2009/01/one_free_interaction.h...
but i'm surprised nobody brought this up yet: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/reasy/
you select text and it turns it into some speed reading format. tiny plugin and plain awesome
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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.