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The Kindle Paperwhite (9/10, WIRED Recommends) is an upgrade worth considering.For not much more, it opens up the joys of reading in the pool, at the beach, or in the tub without fear. Just like highlights in a physical book, a highlighted passage in a Kindle Fire book appears as yellow highlighted words. Tap and hold to begin selecting a passage you’d like to highlight. Click to view larger image. If necessary, tap and drag on the left and right of a selection to select more or fewer words. Mar 10, 2016 Now you’ll see how to disable or turn off Popular Highlights in the Kindle app: So there’s the feature! Simple tap on the green slider adjacent to “Popular Highlights” and it’ll be disabled. That’s all there is to it. How to Get Free Kindle Books. There are a few ways to get free Kindle books. One option is borrowing e-books through your public library. More than 11,000 libraries in the U.S. Have this as an. Highlights Hidden Pictures: A Coloring Book for Grown-Up Children.
␡- Working with Highlights
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Working with Highlights
Highlights are a convenient way to mark passages that are important or that you want to review later on. Highlights are available in books and in personal documents that are in Mobi format. You cannot highlight periodicals.
Adding a Highlight
Just like highlights in a physical book, a highlighted passage in a Kindle Fire book appears as yellow highlighted words.
- Tap and hold to begin selecting a passage you’d like to highlight.
- If necessary, tap and drag on the left and right of a selection to select more or fewer words.
- Tap Highlight.
Deleting a Highlight
Unlike highlights in a physical book, you can delete a highlight in a Kindle book.
- Tap on the middle of a page in the book that contains the highlight you want to delete.
- Tap the Menu icon.
- Locate the highlight you’d like to delete.
- Tap and hold the highlight and tap Delete.
One question we continually get asked by our users is How to turn off the popular highlights feature found in Kindle books?
Before I start, let me just clear up what exactly is the popular highlights feature for those that are still wondering. Well, it's those little-dotted lines found in the text of your kindle books. They signify the popular highlights found by other readers of the same book. To students, this may be a welcome blessing as it helps them to skim to the most important parts of a book. Though others find them utterly annoying. And no-one so far has expressed this sentiment better than the author Andrei Codrescu:
'the entire experience of reading is shattered by the presence of a mob that agitates inside your text like strangers in a train station.'
Enough said. Thankfully, it's really very simple to turn off the popular highlights feature. So let's get to it...just select which instructions relate to your particular Kindle reader.
HOW TO HIDE POPULAR HIGHLIGHTS ON THE OLD KINDLE READER (non-touch)
- Press HOME if you are not already in the Home Screen
- Then click on MENU
- Select SETTINGS
- Turn to Page 3 and switch the Popular Highlights setting to OFF
HOW TO HIDE POPULAR HIGHLIGHTS ON THE NEWER KINDLE READERS (touch-enabled), ie Paperwhite.
- Press HOME if you are not already in the Home Screen
- Tap the MENU button in the top-right corner, then select SETTINGS
- Select READING OPTIONS
- Select NOTES AND HIGHLIGHTS, then switch POPULAR HIGHLIGHTS to OFF
HOW TO HIDE POPULAR HIGHLIGHTS ON THE KINDLE FIRE
- Tap the SETTINGS icon
- Select MORE OPTIONS
- Switch POPULAR HIGHLIGHTS to OFF
HOW TO HIDE POPULAR HIGHLIGHTS ON THE KINDLE APP - FOR iPHONE/iPAD
- Press HOME if you are not already in the Home Screen
- Tap the SETTINGS icon in the bottom right corner
- Scroll down and select OTHER
- Switch POPULAR HIGHLIGHTS to OFF
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I hope this has helped some of you. If you still have any questions or thoughts please post them in the comments below.