Kindle books are a joy to read. Among their perks is the ability to sync them across devices, check word definitions, connect to Goodreads, set up collections, and highlight passages that speak to you. But depending on who’s reading, certain features like popular highlights can be a bit much. Here’s everything you need to know about popular highlights and how to turn them off.

Popular highlights are those passages that are most frequently highlighted by other Kindle users. These appear as dotted lines under certain sentences, along with the number of highlighters who have a preference for the sentence(s).

While the feature works as intended, namely focusing attention on a few notable sentences, the intended effect may not be to everyone's taste when reading a book.

Popular highlights appear on every Kindle platform, whether it’s on the Kindle device or on the desktop and smartphone apps. Here are all the ways to turn off popular highlights.