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Old 10-May-2009, 11:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Extravoice View Post
And you can read reviews of the products by people who already own them. (That may not be science-fictional, but it is one of my favorite things about Amazon. Well, maybe video reviews are a little sci-fi)
Though you should take the reviews with a grain of salt, especially the five star reviews.

There was a thread sometime back about an ATM book where it seemed pretty clear that negative reviews with comments on the bad science were being pulled. If you just went by the reviews on that site you would likely get a distorted view of the book.

It isn't a consistent issue (I've seen other things get what appear to be fair reviews), but I wouldn't trust the reviews too far.
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