Yes, I understand this. And I checked out the links from yourself and from PRP_53 but they do not match what I am experiencing, which is that, using the icon at the left end of the address bar, I activate Reader, and what I get is not what the old Reader gave me—the text minus ads—but a truncated version.
An article on the New Yorker site has text 10 paragraphs long and the Reader version gives the first two paragraphs only. My only 2 choices are, a 2 paragraph version or the original version with distracting items.
Most of the distractions do go away if I choose Hide Distracting Items... but then each paragraph becomes a framed item and I cannot copy that text because clicking on it labels it as a Distracting Item and it blows away in a cloud of pixels.
In summary, my question is, How can I access the old Reader which did away with distractions but presented the entire text from which I could copy a sentence or a paragraph? What is the point of the Reader choice now when it may give me only the first 2 paragraphs of the page? .
I have Apple Intelligence turned off in System Settings.
EDIT: Two new developments. Sometimes Reader works as it used to. And there is now a choice when clicking on the Reader icon at the left of the location bar, "Report Distraction Control Issue" which provides problems to choose from, one of which is that the processed text cannot be selected. So what I am experiencing is happening to others and I have now reported it.
Thanks for your responses to this.