I do?
[I don't think I do but I don't completely disagree with the inference you drew either
]
I don't need to define popularity for you - there's a clear cut definition out there you could easily find yourself.
The title of this thread is "the most popular book of all time" and this was followed up with a list of books ranked in order of highest number of sales. The point I was trying to make was that numbers and popularity don't necessarily go hand in hand.
For e.g. would it be right to assume that attending school is the most
popular way of spending your day simply because millions of people worldwide do so? Is it really the most popular or is it the most common? Now, it'd be silly to deny the fact that there are people who actually do enjoy going to school during the day just like it would be silly to assume all Christians/Muslims don't enjoy reading the Bible or the Qur'an (and I have not assumed this).
All we can do is speculate. We don't know people's motives for buying books, so how can we say that a book is popular simply because it's sold a lot of copies? If I purchased 2 million copies of a a celebrity's autobiography because I wanted to burn them, this does not make it a popular book.
This same principle applies here and I stand by what I said in my previous post. Furthermore, the Qur'an and the Bible are a lot more than just books. They were not created to entertain or educate like many other books are. They are central components of two of the biggest religions in the world so it's no surprise at all that so many copies are sold. But, this does not automatically mean these are the most popular books.
If I'm guilty of some sort of logical fallacy (which I don't agree with) for assuming popularity and numbers don't go hand in hand - whoever agrees with the opposite is guilty of the exact same fallacy since they too are making assumptions about a person's actions.