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"It's beach time, and you've probably already scanned a hundred lists of summer reads. Sadly overlooked is that other crucial literary category: the summer non-read, the book that you pick up, all full of ambition, at the beginning of June and put away, the bookmark now and forever halfway through chapter 1, on Labor Day. The classic of this genre is Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time," widely called "the most unread book of all time." How can we find today's greatest non-reads? 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 every reader is getting to the end, those highlights could be scattered throughout the length of the book. If nobody has made it past the introduction, the popular highlights will be clustered at the beginning."

"Since we introduced Readmill for Android in October, highlighting has been our most requested feature. It's one of the best ways to connect with other readers in the community, and we couldn't wait to share it with you today."

"I never understood how the hell highlighting a text could add any value. It's a boolean thing. I'd almost say childish. Highlights killed every ebooks apps ever made."

"This week, ebook lovers got yet another reminder of why DRM (Digital Rights Management) is terrible for ebooks. While attending a library conference in Singapore, Jim O'Donnell lost access to the titles in his Google Play Books app. Apparently, the app detected that he was in a country where Google Books aren't available and subsequently denied him access to his books. Stories like this crop up every now and then, each time highlighting some crazy ebook restriction or policy that most people aren't even aware of. The way things are set up, you kind of need to protect the digital books you buy from the companies that sell them. There are a growing number of ways and reasons why Amazon, Google, or a book publisher might strip you of your digital library. The best way to protect yourself is to break the DRM on your ebooks for the purpose of keeping a local, personal backup."

"For two years, the Readmill community has been writing in the margins of ebooks. You've created hundreds of thousands of highlights and comments and shared them across the web, making new connections each day through the books you read."

"En effet, la visualisation des annotations d'autres lecteurs, la plupart inconnus, pose des questions que Bob Stein, avec SocialBook, avait anticipées : franchement, qu'est-ce que ça m'apporte de savoir que tels lecteurs ont surligné tels passages ? L'indicateur est probablement un héritage de la page vue qui permet, par exemple, à des chanteurs en herbe ou à des journaux de faire valoir la popularité d'une vidéo/d'un article auprès des annonceurs publicitaires. Mais dans la publication éditoriale, quelle valeur a cette mesure pour un lecteur ? Car elle en a bien une pour les éditeurs ou pour Readmill : les premiers peuvent comprendre ce qui retient le plus l'attention des lecteurs (et adapter leurs contenus notamment à partir de cette indication); Readmill rend visible les « interactions » réalisées à partir de son application (monstration d'un succès potentiel)."

"Even without the social features or the highlighting features, Readmill's UI, design, and typography are enough to make it, in my opinion, the best ebook reading app available for iOS devices."

"Founded in late 2010 by Henrik Berggren and David Kjelkerud, Readmill launched as a social layer for eBooks, making it easy to highlight extracts that can be shared with friends and peers, turning the book into a "social object". It offers a very elegant reading app for Android and iPhone, as well as a tablet version for iPad. The app also employs a Twitter-like follow model where users can follow books, other users and, crucially, authors."