Shared Kindle "Highlights" and public notes are great social-reading features

I'm a fan of Kindle ebooks. These ebooks can be read on the desktop as well as mobile devices and this makes the ebook format more widely accessible that other formats.

The really impressive "social reading" feature is the ability to see what other book lovers liked and highlighted in the books they read. Publicly shared Kindle highlighted passages and notes can serve as a zeitgeist as well as let book lovers discover unknown books.

This quote was highlighted by over 5000 Kindle users - “I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."

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