The 10 most popular products ZDNET readers bought this month (including lots of phone cases)

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Labor Day weekend is almost here, and the last several weeks have been packed with end-of-summer sales. Now, we're ready to unpack our readers' favorite items from the month of August.

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We gathered data on all the products our readers bought the most last month via links in ZDNET reviews, buying guides, deal posts, and other content on our site. The following are the most popular items purchased by thousands of people, listed by the number purchased in August (note that your privacy is protected; we only have access to aggregate data from our user base, and there is no way for us to identify individual people's purchases).

Here are the most popular products that ZDNET readers purchased last month.

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