Interesting Kindle feature for favorite lines in a book.

Amazon has added a neat feature to the Kindle. While reading a book, the reader can highlight a sentence by clicking the Kindle control “5-Way” button at the start of text and then again at the end of a text section, or sentence and then share that line with the book’s site at Amazon. (The sharing feature has to be enabled in the Menu…settings.) The highlight also shows up when someone is reading the book on their Kindle (if enabled). 
I happened to look at THREE HUNDRED ZEROES today and when I scrolled down I saw the following quotes from the book listed:

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The mice rule the shelters, and if there are no mice, that’s because there are lots of snakes eating the mice…take your pick. &quote;

Highlighted by 7 Kindle users
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“I like to stay at a certain low level of pissed-off at all times, that way I never lose it and blow my top!” &quote;

Highlighted by 6 Kindle users
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As a rule of thumb, the pack should weigh about twenty percent of one’s body weight, &quote;

Amazon has hit on something very interesting. It is creating a community of readers that are “voting” on favorite lines from the book. I started hunting around and here are a few other amusing ones. The first are from Bill Bryson’s, A WALK IN THE WOODS:

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If there is one thing the AT teaches, it is low-level ecstasy—something we could 
all do with more of in our lives. &quote;

Highlighted by 52 Kindle users
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What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die, of course. Literally shit myself lifeless. I would blow my sphincter out my backside like one of those unrolling paper streamers you get at children’s parties—I daresay it would even give a merry toot—and bleed to a messy death in my sleeping bag. &quote;

Highlighted by 52 Kindle users
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I was beginning to appreciate that the central feature of life on the Appalachian Trail is deprivation, that the whole point of the experience is to remove yourself so thoroughly from the conveniences of everyday life that the most ordinary things—processed cheese, a can of pop gorgeously beaded with condensation—fill you with wonder and gratitude. &quote;

Highlighted by 45 Kindle users
Here is one from WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, By Sara Gruen:

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Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.&quote;

Highlighted by 458 Kindle users

This one is from PENTECOST: A Thriller, By Joanna Penn:

&quote;There is evil that humans conjure and use against each other. There are words of power that can be used as weapons. Myths that have spanned millennia are based on strands of truth. &quote;
Highlighted by 3 Kindle users

Here you can look at the top rated Kindle book favorites: Books with most public notes.
What will they think of next?

Dennis “K1” Blanchard

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