Gentlefolk;
I have never claimed to be the brightest font in the Kindle library, but I recently bought a book and found it had annotation marks all through it. Baffled, I finally broke down and contacted Amazon Customer Support. Here is what ACS replied:
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Hello,
If you see passages marked with a Grey dashed underline in your reading, these
are the book's Popular Highlights.
Amazon displays Popular Highlights by
combining the highlights of all Kindle customers and identifying the passages
with the most highlights.
If you have a Kindle device, you can choose not to have your highlights included
in Popular Highlights by turning off Annotations Backup in Settings on your
device. If you have a Kindle App, we will be adding this capability soon.
Annotations Backup backs up your annotations and last page read and syncs them
across devices.
You can learn more about Popular Highlights in our Help pages here:
http://www.amazon.com/help/kindlepopularhighlights
I hope this information helps. We look forward to see you again soon.
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Is this "feature" commonly known? Am I the only one who thinks Amazon has gone a service too far??
Don