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== book reading mode ==

what im suggesting is a mode where everything appears like your reading a book in a library, it firstly, citations and links flat out don't work, to check citations, you actually have to go to the cites page and links would be like being told to buy this other book, or you could make links and work but lets assume not, you would view articles in pages, swipe to go to a page on the left or right, the first page would be the cover, it show the title, (article name) author, (article creator), writers, (recent editors), publisher, (wikipedia) A [all categories of that article], (categories for that article) and more, i think long infoboxes should be their own page, you could also swipe down or press a button on top to close that book, then you could explore a library of books that are articles, i do think the library idea is unrealistic (?) so i think it is better to have a normal searchbar (?) [[User:Misterpotatoman|Misterpotatoman]] ([[User talk:Misterpotatoman|talk]]) 06:00, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

:This feature would be extremely complex, and would almost instantly get a [[Wikipedia:PINKLOCK]]. Maybe it should be a feature just to turn off links? [[Special:Contributions/&#126;2026-11404-95|&#126;2026-11404-95]] ([[User talk:&#126;2026-11404-95|talk]]) 15:14, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
::[[Help:Printing]] [[User:Misterpotatoman|Misterpotatoman]] ([[User talk:Misterpotatoman|talk]]) 21:36, 6 March 2026 (UTC)
:Why would anyone want the citations and links to not work? I sort of understand where you're coming from on the pages part (kind of like having an e-book), but I don't see the point of making people manually copy and paste citations into the URL bar to check the sources for accuracy. And hyperlinks are a main part of what makes Wikipedia so useful.
:[[User:Sentimental Dork|<span style="font-family: Georgia; color: darkblue">Sentimental Dork</span>]] ([[User talk:Sentimental Dork|<span style="font-family: Georgia; color: darkblue">talk</span>]]) 23:21, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
::If the idea is replicating an e-book perhaps the idea is to keep everything in black and white? Probably something any book view could handle via css. [[User:Chipmunkdavis|CMD]] ([[User talk:Chipmunkdavis|talk]]) 01:42, 10 March 2026 (UTC)