Spot a Boring Kindle Book by Looking at Popular Highlights

Looking for a good book to read this summer?

Amazon’s “Popular Highlights” feature provides one quick and dirty measure.

Every book’s Kindle page lists the five passages most highlighted by readers.

If nobody has made it past the introduction, the popular highlights will be clustered at the beginning.

(Disclaimer: This is not remotely scientific and is for entertainment purposes only!)

Of course, this has a few downsides.

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