Highlighting in Primal Reads is distracting. You tap on a highlight, you see that so and so has highlighted it. And that’s about it. There’s no link to that person’s profile or any way to comment on their highlight or otherwise interact with it.

What would be better is if

a) Default is no highlights showing

b) There’s a list of people who have made highlights (with number of highlights per person), starting with those you follow, and you can tap on each person to have their highlights show in the article. If you don't no highlights. (Avoid multi-select unless there is a very good UI to resolve overlapping highlights from different people.)

c) You can do interact with the highlight in some meaningful way, not just view it.

Without all that I think it's better to just turn it off, too distracting.

Thanks.