Dan Brown Tops the Bible as Most Highlighted Kindle Book of all Time

Amazon has launched a interesting metric to analyze Kindle readership, measuring the Most Highlighted Books of All Time among Kindle eBooks. Interestingly, Dan Brown‘s The Lost Symbol is more highlighted by Kindle users than the Bible.

The top five most highlighted books are listed below. As we reported last month, Amazon has built a “Popular Highlights” section that showcases the book passages underlined by Kindle readers–a 21st Century twist on literary quotation. So far, that list has been dominated by The Shack by William P. Young, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, and The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown.

Here is the most underlined passage from Brown’s most higlighted title–underlined by 1,161 Kindle users: “Langdon came face-to-face with a bronze bust of Masonic luminary Albert Pike, along with the engraving of his most famous quote: WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR OURSELVES ALONE DIES WITH US; WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR OTHERS AND THE WORLD REMAINS AND IS IMMORTAL.”

The Top Five Most Highlighted Books of All Time
1. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
2. Holy Bible (NIV)
3. The Shack by William P. Young
4. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
5. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Follow this link to read the rest of the list.

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