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I do too. In fact, that paragraph was kinda freaky to read because I'd just gotten done highlighting it a couple times.

Thinking about it, I'm pretty sure I only do it on webpages and not in Word docs or PDFs. So I wonder if it's a way of compensating for the lack of visible vertical reference points in web text.

Like, with Word docs and PDFs there is a page divider that any given text is visibly distant from. Maybe the lack of that in long web text is a problem.



As the article mentions. I won't, usually, highlight text in a word processor because I'll sometimes drag the text somewhere.

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