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What Are The Most Highlighted Book Passages On The Kindle?

Jonah Gardner

04/25/2012

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For those of you non-Kindle owners out there, there's a feature on the Amazon E-Reader that lets you highlight particularly interesting passages. So now, Amazon has helpfully put out a list of the most highlighted passages of all time.

Unsurprisingly, the list is positively dominated by The Hunger Games series, by far the biggest seller since the Kindle and its highlighting feature got popular. In fact, 8 of the top ten belong to Suzanne Collins (the other two are Jane Austen). Counting backwards from number three, the bronze medal goes to Ms. Austen for one of the all-time classic opening lines:

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

Makes sense. Number two is more functional but no less important to understanding the book it comes from:

"The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins."

I mean, I assume you probably already know that if you're reading The Hunger Games, but okay, that's fair enough. As for number one, it might not be what you're expecting. It actually comes from Catching Fire, the middle book of the series:

"Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them."

That's about a succinct a summary of the major psychological action of the series as you'll find.

What are some of your favorite passages? Be sure to check out the whole list here.

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