If you’re like most people, you probably use your Kindle to read books. But if you want to keep your reading experience as uninterrupted as possible, you might want to disable highlights on your Kindle. To do this, open the Kindle’s settings and select “Appearance and Personalization.” Under “Appearance,” select “Text Size and Fonts.” Under “Fonts,” select “No Highlights.” Now that you’ve disabled highlights on your Kindle, it’s likely that you won’t see any difference in the way that your reading experience is affected. However, if you ever want to enable them again, just reopen the settings and change back to the previous setting.

Popular Highlights appear in lots of Kindle books. You’ll come across underlined text while you’re reading, along with a little note saying that there are “386 Highlighters” or something. There are a couple of problems with this:

Popular Highlights break your immersion. If you’re reading your favorite book, you might not be interested in seeing that a sentence has been highlighted by lots of people. Popular Highlights direct your reading and stop you from thinking independently. Sure, a passage might be important but you should find it out for yourself as you read; what’s important to you might not be to others and vice versa. Plus, a teacher telling a single high school class to highlight a particular passage is enough to highlight it on every copy of that Kindle book in the world. Highlights beget more highlights. Once a section is a popular highlight, more people just highlight it and ignore other, possibly more relevant, passages.

So, here’s how to turn them off.

First, open the book you want to turn off Popular Highlights on.

Next, tap the screen to bring up the menu and select the “Aa” button.

Switch over to the “More” tab and toggle off the switch for “Popular Highlights.”

That’s it! You’ll no longer see the underlined text while reading. Popular Highlights sound like a good idea but, in reality, you’re usually better off creating your own if you want them.