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Poll: Do you select text while reading?
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Re: Poll: Do you select text while reading?
#332I don't at all, but I still think it's a very interesting concept I'd love to see taken further. I almost felt bad hitting "No" because of it. Maybe I'll become a convert.
Peer pressure in action?
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#333Yep...trackpoint on Thinkpads tends to fix this problem for me.
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#334I select text and have osx's speech to text read it to me while i'm reading. That way I can read way more and way faster.
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#335I would hate it if browsers started getting in the way with my text selection. The best thing about it is that it works almost everywhere.
I don't select text when I read something in the terminal, though, only in GUI applications. I guess I don't like lines being selected completely for some reason.
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#336For a long time the New York Times had a javascript thing that would pop up a dictionary reference for anything you double clicked on. As someone who compulsively doubleclicks to highlight and unhighlight, it bugged the hell out of me.
I used Glimmerblocker to nuke all Javascript from the Times because of this. What is it about newspaper websites that encourages what I can only assume are normally rational developers to misbehave so unbelievably badly?
The annoying thing is that these things are often used to stop other developers stealing stuff, like the the disable right click so you can't steal my images.
Someone I know has an old website in flash that he had done that way so people steal the images. When I did a print screen and a 5 second edit in Photoshop he was a little shocked. He's get the site rebuilt in HTML now :)
If it's on the web, then it's gonna get stolen if someone actually wants it. Don't piss everyone else off in the meanwhile.
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#337When 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…
I'm curious to know if you use a mouse or trackpad. I get the same connection with the page by twitching the page with two finger scrolling on my trackpad.
Yes. I highlight text more with a mouse and do more scrolling on a trackpad.
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#338I select text to copy/paste to Twitter. So frustrating that there's no comparable CTRL/CMD + C, CTRL/CMD + V commands on Android.
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#339The obvious reason that people do this is because of wider and wider screens. Some web pages or applications still show text that fills the width of windows. If you have to turn your head back and forth, then you are much more likely to lose your line on a large block of text. It's much easier to pick out the next line with a line marker.
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#340I do. But I'm also one of those people that will highlight text in 'real' books using a marker. I read destructively, you really don't want to be the next person in line after I'm 'done' with a textbook. And being able to permanently highlight stuff on the screen so that when I re-visit a page later and it still contains my highlights is something I miss.
Try diigo for doing that, works well enough: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/diigo-bookmark-arc...