Ask YC: What do you think of this NY Times feature

Re:Ask YC: What do you think of this NY Times feature by danielha on Friday January 11, 2008 @01:21PM (#97251)

I obsessively click and highlight text while I read, so it quickly becomes annoying for me.

Anyhow, I have already have the answers.com plugin for Firefox, which brings up that overlay on command.

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Re:Ask YC: What do you think of this NY Times feature by mattmaroon on Friday January 11, 2008 @01:37PM (#97263)

Me too. I thought I was insane for doing that. Glad to hear at least someone else is.

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Re:Ask YC: What do you think of this NY Times feature by jkush on Friday January 11, 2008 @02:03PM (#97275)

There was a thread on reddit a while back. I think us click and highlighters are in good company.

http://reddit.com/info/64ek1/comments/

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Re:Ask YC: What do you think of this NY Times feature by eru on Friday January 11, 2008 @07:00PM (#97352)

I use ctrl-A.

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Re:Ask YC: What do you think of this NY Times feature by jkush on Friday January 11, 2008 @09:21PM (#97411)

Heh. Don't know if that was sarcastic, but in case you aren't: when I want to highlight something for copy and paste, then yes, I use CTRL-A.

What we're talking about is an almost obsessive compulsive clicking and highlighting of words while we read.

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Re:Ask YC: What do you think of this NY Times feature by paulgb on Friday January 11, 2008 @02:03PM (#97277)

I do it too, and the WSJ feature annoys the heck out of me. I like it on Answers though, and I have the answers firefox extension as well.

Apparently WSJ knows it's annoying, because you can turn it off if you are a subscriber (IIRC).

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Re:Ask YC: What do you think of this NY Times feature by jonnytran on Friday January 11, 2008 @02:04PM (#97278)

In other words, "Glad to hear I'm not the only one who's insane" ;-)

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Re:Ask YC: What do you think of this NY Times feature by softwarejim on Friday January 11, 2008 @02:53PM (#97287)

Phew ... I am not alone

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Re:Ask YC: What do you think of this NY Times feature by dcurtis on Friday January 11, 2008 @01:28PM (#97257)

I thought I was the only person who obsessively clicked and highlighted text as I read.

We should start a club.

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Re:Ask YC: What do you think of this NY Times feature by scw on Friday January 11, 2008 @01:55PM (#97272)

Meet your reddit brethren: http://reddit.com/info/5yw4h/comments/

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Re:Ask YC: What do you think of this NY Times feature by far33d on Friday January 11, 2008 @03:26PM (#97295)

I do this too. I'm convinced it's a vestigial habit of the "old" web, where it was very common to have a crazy img based background and text that you couldn't read. I found myself highlighting text on the web all the time just so I could get better contrast.

It's possible myspace will create a whole new generation of obsessive highlighters.

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