alt Hacker NewsText selection used to be frustrating on mobile for me too until Google fixed it with OCR. I get to just hold a button briefly and then can immediately select an area of the screen to scan text from, with a consistent UX. Like a screenshot but for text.
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This is such an indictment of modern technology. No offense is meant to you for doing what works for you, but it is buck wild that this is the "fix" they've come up with. As somebody learning about this for the first time it sounds equivalent to a world where screenshotting became really hard so people started taking photos of their screen so they could screenshot the photo. How could such a fundamental aspect of using a computer become so ridiculous? It's like satire.
Does it automatically scroll down while selecting if the text is larger than the screen?
That’s how I do it on the iPhone as well. I take a screen shot first.
You can count on it, it is reliable, it always works.
They are using OCR for selecting plain text?