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Two years ago when Twilight was all the rage, I was searching for some exact quotes that I vaguely remembered and found a site (I think it was "Goodquotes") that let users submit their favorites. Thousands upon thousands of quotes from "Twilight" - most of which were not meaningful or interesting - had been submitted and flooded the site.
I was annoyed by this but I could not be too upset. This meant that thousands of young people are passionate about a book and reading. Many of them will hopefully be future authors, or MobileReads members. Youthful over-enthusiasm is a problem that time usually solves.
So if tens of thousands of young people are highlighting passages from "Hunger Games" - more power to them. And I love how this statistic will screw with the data analysis that Amazon will do.
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