Comments on: Amazon Kindle’s Most Popular Bible Highlights

By: Most Popular Bible and Koran verses « Awakening Grace

Most Popular Bible and Koran verses « Awakening Grace — Tue, 25 May 2010 13:31:01 +0000

[...] Check out the Bible highlights here [...]

By: Treading Grain » Post Topic » Kindle, The Bible and The Koran

Treading Grain » Post Topic » Kindle, The Bible and The Koran — Mon, 24 May 2010 10:19:43 +0000

[...] See the top Bible verses. [...]

By: Most Highlighted Bible Passages on Kindle « OpenBible.info Blog

Most Highlighted Bible Passages on Kindle « OpenBible.info Blog — Thu, 20 May 2010 10:49:09 +0000

[...] Ray Fowler analyzes Amazon’s Kindle data to find the most-highlighted Bible passages on Kindle. [...]

By: Ray Fowler

Ray Fowler — Thu, 20 May 2010 04:31:59 +0000

RightKlik - Great idea. Done. • Most Popular Kindle Highlights for the Koran

By: Most Popular Kindle Highlights for the Koran at Ray Fowler .org

Most Popular Kindle Highlights for the Koran at Ray Fowler .org — Thu, 20 May 2010 04:27:51 +0000

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By: RightKlik

RightKlik — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:33:17 +0000

Should try this on the Koran.

By: Ray Fowler

Ray Fowler — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:53:26 +0000

Thomas – That’s a great question. I’m not sure how many highlights it takes before Amazon presents it as a popular highlight. I believe it takes at least three, but it may vary by book so as not to overwhelm the reader with too much underlined information. That’s why I chose to use dash marks in the empty sets rather than zeros, because there could be some highlights for those verses, just not enough to trigger a popular highlight yet.

Also, putting together a chart like this will be less helpful in the future because now that people can see other people’s highlights, that may influence them to highlight the same passage. Right now the feature is new enough that I believe this is a fair representation of what people have been highlighting in their Kindles over the past year or so.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:23:43 +0000

Ray — any thoughts on why verses that are very popular by highlighters of one translation appear to be totally ignored by readers of another? Or why users of NLT and ESV appear to highlight several different passages, while users of all the other translations concentrate exclusively on just a very few verses? I wonder if there’s some skewing or missing data in these statistics?

By: Ray Fowler

Ray Fowler — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:47:27 +0000

Jay – The software update is pretty good. Most helpful is the ability to sort your books by collections, really a folder/tagging system. I’ve noticed page turns are quicker as well.

As far as a Kindle friendly Bible, I have not found it yet. I have both the NIV and ESV Study Bible. They are easy enough to navigate on my Kindle for PC application using the mouse, but they are both awkward on the Kindle device itself.

So, like you, I use the Bible on my Kindle for reading, but not for group studies, etc. where I have to look a lot of references up. For that I still use the Laridian software on my iPaq which has a great interface for looking up references quickly.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:17:35 +0000

Thanks for the kindle news… I had no idea there was an update for my kindle. I am leaving it on to see if it will update. I look forward to that update. It will certainly help with reading PDF’s.

Speaking of reading. Do you know which is the most KINDLE FRIENDLY Bible available? My NIV is good for reading, but it takes a lot of work to go to a different book of the Bible. There has to be something better out there. Thanks.

Rev Jay
Ottawa Canada