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by xtiansimon 1185 days ago
I visited the site to look for something to read. Started by reading a review of something I just finished. Then I looked for a jump from there to something similar. No similar book recommendations. That’s Ok.

Then, I found a list of award winning books. Some items don’t have links (presumably not reviewed). Ok. But I can’t highlight/copy any text from the list, nor can I use page reader view (although the site looks very clean and readable already) to even see the text and copy it.

I don’t mind the site not recommending, but to have a simple list of books where you can’t select the text is not a good UX on mobile.

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I can understand that. The text selection was just changed due to the sheer volume of people copying whole articles and passing them off as their own. I also know you can just view the source and copy so there isn't really a foolproof way to prevent.

Maybe if I made the lists copyable and also had an icon to copy to clipboard, would that help?