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I like to idly select text as I'm reading and when it doesn't work it's super annoying. A pox on sites that do this.

same here. i use it as a kind of mental bookmark as i move down the page because I know that its very, very likely i'll get distracted by somethingand have to temporarily leave the article.

however, this is probably a habit for a minority of users because it only makes sense on desktop. if you're reading on a mobile touchscreen-device this highlight-as-you-go tic just doesn't make sense

I'll do it on my phone, but it's usually just over the area I was reading when I decided to look away, so it's not while I'm reading, only if I'm going to go somewhere else first.

I do exactly the same thing. thought I was the only weird one.

you too?

I triple tap my trackpad (on macOS) to highlight the paragraph I'm reading, then highlight the next one and so on.

Thanks for this reading tip!

Blessed are the sites that allow symmetric selections, cursed those that make it wonky.

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