When reading on the internet...

[Tee Kay]

...do you highlight the text with your mouse as you go read?

Just curious

 

[Red Door]

Wow, I just find that I do for short posts, and for important points too.

 

[AAHZ]

nope... however i have done this when reading long posts and trying to find a point for rebuttle...
piece

 

[Atlas14]

No, I just read it.

 

[feldmarshall]

I do

 

[Ansar]

No, I just read it.

Same here.

Nothing to it but to do it.

 

[Irish Caesar]

I've never done that, or even considered it.

I expected to see a lot of replys to the effect of "you must be crazy, nobody does that," but this thread apparently has taught me not to put much stock in expectations.

 

[Gogf]

No, I've never even thought about doing that.

I have a friend who does, though, and it bugs the heck out of me when he tells me to read something he found funny and starts constantly moving the mouse around.

 

[ParkCungHee]

I do.

Ten Char.

 

[ybbor]

yeah

it's like writing something down: the very act of doing it helps you remember it; even if the action itself doesn't help you much

 

[Tomoyo]

Only if it's a huge wall of text without any indentations and such. However, that's only after I try reading it normally and find that I'm having trouble going to the right line after I finish a line.

 

[Godwynn]

Only to keep my spot if I leave the room.

 

[bhsup]

Yep, frequently, but only with long sections of text.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

The only time I might do that is if the text coloring is very hard to make out against the background, ex. blue against black, but I just highlight the whole page for that. Other than that, no I don't. Never thought of it, either, though.

 

[Smellincoffee]

The only time I might do that is if the text coloring is very hard to make out against the background, ex. blue against black, but I just highlight the whole page for that. Other than that, no I don't. Never thought of it, either, though.

I'm the same here; I can only think of two occassions where I had to do this to read the text.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Sometimes I move the mouse as I read to follow along with the text, but I don't highlight. And I only do it sometimes.

 

[Kraznaya]

No.

tenchar

 

[CaptainF]

Nein.

Diez Letras.

 

[Stylesjl]

Sometimes but generally for when the colour is hard to make out

 

[Prince_Imrahil]

I'm with the hardly ever crowd.