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"Curious... Why are you selecting? Is it to assist in reading, or some other reason?"

Sometimes unconscious compulsion, otherwise to put together a quote in the context of an existing thread.

I immediately noticed this feature due to the high number of discards :)

Scrolling. Selected text or word is just a marker when scrolling fast. It is much easier to follow visually fast moving selected part of the text than to keep track about sentence that I'm currently reading.

When using keyboard it's not that important, since one quickly learn how much PgDn scrolls, but when using mouse it is good to have a selection marker to quickly continue to read from there after scrolling.

I'm waiting for a bug in incognito to be fixed before I start promotion but I built a chrome extension that specifically solves this problem if you'd like to try it out.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/magicscroll-web-re...

>I immediately noticed this feature due to the high number of discards

the same here.

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