Don't Copy and Paste Articles From Reader View

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   eugbugposted 4 days ago

   Although reader view strips ads and other clutter from the HTML, it drags in other unwanted stuff. I noticed that there were Saymedia references in the HTML for an article that I had migrated from Discover to Blogger. I had copied and pasted the whole article, rather than saving images individually and then reinserting them. It turned out that the pasted images are being loaded from TAG's Saymedia server, rather than being actually stored on Google's GoogleUserContent.com domain.
   Lucky I spotted this before they're deleted.

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      bravewarriorposted 4 days agoin reply to this

      Copy/paste from Author view works just fine. Why would you copy/paste from reader view, Eugene? Those sites are going down soon. Author view is the original version without all the ads and TAG intrusions. I had all of mine imported to Authory.com. All but two came through successfully. But I was able to manually import them. For any text, photos, videos that didn't make it through, I copy/pasted them from Author view. That worked.

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         Kenna McHughposted 4 days agoin reply to this

         Same here, I copied and pasted from Author View, and it worked. Though the content links to Amazon prevented the smooth transition, I still managed.

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         eugbugposted 4 days agoin reply to this

         That's what I used to do, but I thought Reader view produced an even cleaner source. In future I'll save images to my desktop and copy from there and also copy text and paste it as unformatted text using the the right button context menu on my mouse. Another issue is that author view doesn't preserve captions on images.
         A way to check whether images are being loaded from Saymedia is to save your article, go offline and then try to view the saved version. If you only see the text, (which is saved locally), but no images, then that means images are only implemented as links to the server.

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            bravewarriorposted 4 days agoin reply to this

            You're right about captions and attributions not coming through, Eugene. I copy/pasted them from Author view after copy/pasting the images that didn't transfer. That worked.

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   Brenda Arledgeposted 3 days ago

   oh well...I've been busy copying and I've already copied over 500.  I haven't been using author view, but the images are not as important as my writing.  As long as I have my own words saved, I will be happy.

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