{"id":855,"date":"2014-02-26T06:04:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T11:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iip-group.com\/hectic-dad\/?p=855"},"modified":"2015-06-12T16:20:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T21:20:52","slug":"kindle-app-shut-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/kindle-app-shut-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindle App – Shut Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently wrote about my Kindle app on my iPad<\/a> and the new feature that gives you an estimate of how much longer you need to read to reach the next milestone in the book you’re reading. This is a positive feature that I love. But not everything about my Kindle app, as configured out-of-the-box (ok, out-of-the-download would be more accurate, but it sounds even dorkier than I usually sound) is great.<\/p>\n

I love the ability to highlight things in my Kindle app. I especially love the fact that I can bring up everything that I’ve highlighted and see all the snippets on one screen. If you want to see all your highlights, you need to be in a Kindle e-book. Then you touch on the uppermost or lowermost part of the screen so that the menu bar appears. Then touch on the icon of a page with lines on it, just to the right of the book title.<\/p>\n

With the most recent update, I noticed that there were some things that were already underlined\/selected for highlighting. At first I couldn’t figure out what these were. Eventually I discovered that they are the items that were highlighted by other people. By default, the current version of the Kindle app displays the\u00a0popular highlights<\/em> that were made by other people. Don’t get me wrong, I respect every other reader out there, but during an initial reading of a book, I don’t really want to know what other people thought was important. I like to make my own decisions about what matters. So I started searching for how to turn this off. It took me a while, mostly because the Kindle app settings don’t make it obvious that the settings extend below the screen.<\/p>\n

So here’s how you turn off the Popular Highlights:<\/p>\n