Is the Series $\displaystyle\sum\frac{\sin n}{n}$ Absolutely Convergent?

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The series $\displaystyle\sum\frac{\sin n}{n}$ is proven to be not absolutely convergent by demonstrating that the integral $\int_{0}^{n\pi }{\frac{\left| \sin x \right|}{x}\,dx}$ diverges. The analysis utilizes the interval $\displaystyle\left[2k\pi+\frac{\pi}{4},\ 2k\pi+\frac{3\pi}{4}\right]$, which contains integers, to establish that the series diverges as $n$ approaches infinity. The derived inequality shows that the sum behaves similarly to the harmonic series, confirming divergence.

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Using the fact that the interval $\displaystyle\left[2k\pi+\frac{\pi}{4},\ 2k\pi+\frac{3\pi}{4}\right]$ contains an integer, prove that $\displaystyle\sum\frac{\sin n}{n}$ is not absolutely convergent.
 
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$\begin{aligned}
\int_{0}^{n\pi }{\frac{\left| \sin x \right|}{x}\,dx}&=\sum\limits_{j=0}^{n-1}{\int_{j\pi }^{(j+1)\pi }{\frac{\left| \sin x \right|}{x}\,dx}} \\
& =\sum\limits_{j=0}^{n-1}{\int_{0}^{\pi }{\frac{\sin x}{x+j\pi }\,dx}} \\
& \ge \frac{1}{\pi }\sum\limits_{j=0}^{n-1}{\int_{0}^{\pi }{\frac{\sin x}{j+1}\,dx}} \\
& =\frac{2}{\pi }\sum\limits_{j=0}^{n-1}{\frac{1}{j+1}}.
\end{aligned}$

As $n\to\infty$ the magic appears.
 
Let $n_$ such an integer. What about $\sum_k\frac{|\sin n_k|}{n_k}$?
 

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