Friday, September 17, 2010

comments from others

Ok, most of my "books" are text books, PDF documents and other documents I create for the Kindle.  But I buy a few books from Amazon.  So while I was searching through the "free" books to buy from Amazon, I found Stephen King's UR for like $4.00.  I couldn't help it, I bought it.

I opened the book and began to read.  It's about an English professor who buys a kindle to prove something to his girlfriend.  Naturally, this Kindle is from a parallel universe or something.  So when I see something with a gray dotted line under it and 24 highlighters, I thought this was something Amazon and Stephen King did just to make his book spookier.  Nope, turns out that was something 24 other readers have highlighted!

I think it was cooler that King and Amazon were goofing with me.

By the way - it's a cool story.  I recommend it!

Yes, you can turn off the ability to see what others highlight, and the ability to have your highlights shared with others.

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