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Comment by MattSayar | Hacker News Reader

"Oh, the Places You Go" being in the top twenty sold reminded me that it's graduation season.

I feel silly for initially underestimating the amount of overlap between the Most Sold books and Most Read books. I assumed the Most Sold would be more pretentious than the Most Read books. Still surprised there's not at least one Danielle Steele (or equivalent) in Most Read

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There's also a slight difference in between the most sold and read lists -- sold is all books (Kindle, physical, bulk buys, etc) while read is Kindle-only (because there'd be no way for Amazon to know you read a physical book except self-reported through Goodreads)

It could account for a few of the discrepancies, too. I'd expect "Oh, the Places You'll Go" is most likely going to be physical purchases for graduates, so I wouldn't expect it to show up in read even if all the grads read their copies.

Minor quible: most read is Kindle and audible ("into the water" was heard more often than read).

Oooh good catch, I missed it on my quick scan. I'd love to be able to break it down more than just Fiction/Nonfiction into listening vs hearing, various sources, etc.

Isn't that what a 'smart home' is for?

Give it a couple more years, maybe. Amazon just announced their echo cams

I am sure, the data includes the 'read data' from Goodreads, they own the service.

I highly doubt it. Firstly, the description only mentions Kindle and Audible (which I missed on first reading), and Goodreads is self-reported so Amazon would have no way to know if the book was actually read, or more importantly when it was read, since it acts as a bookcase. I know a few of people who have backfilled books they read on Goodreads, for example.

Watch out though - for children's books the most read list doesn't have huge overlap with the most loved list.

Children don't tend to buy their own books, and sometimes don't get to chose what books to read.

http://whatkidsarereading.co.uk/the-books-children-love-to-r...

EDIT: Fucking hell I hate this website now.

Compare the older much more usable version: https://web.archive.org/web/20151203123900/http://whatkidsar...

Did you miss "Beach Lawyer"?

The only place that book will go is the dumpster or local used book store.

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