Improve Your General Knowledge in Leisure Time! [Kindle Edition]

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

It provides readers with the knowledge and information that people should know; the knowledge that is well known or must be known by everyone. This blog is to help people establish their common framework in a social context to know general items in various areas of social life, science, business, technology, art, sport, universe, creatures, etc. It presents the information in an easy way to read, memorize (also to improve memory) and self-test. So readers could improve their general knowledge while enjoying their leisure time.

Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you're not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• Publisher: G. R. Roosta
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B002MUB11S
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,204 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Dictionary definitions, January 31, 2010

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Fred Coulter "Fredrik V. Coulter" (DeLand, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Improve Your General Knowledge in Leisure Time! (Kindle Edition)

I find nothing in the blog at all interesting. It generally consists of an obvious short definition of some term that you probably should already know. For example, the latest definition I received was:

Roman Numerals: The well known numeral system that is decimal but not directly positional and does not include a zero: Roman Numberals.

Some symbols and their values:
I ... 1
V ... 5
X ... 10 (decem - ten)
L ... 50
C ... 100 (centum - one hundred)
D ... 500
M ... 1000 (mille - one thousand)

This article was long. Most of the articles are only one or two sentences long. There were earlier articles are on:

Shekel
Teletubbies
Big Ben

The articles are too short (1 to 2 sentences) and cursory, and are (generally) things I already know. In fact, I suspect that most of the people who buy a Kindle are so well read that the level of knowledge that this blog offers is just too general.

If you want to expand your knowledge with random knowledge, a better approach would be to subscribe to the Article of the Day email from wikipedia [...] While I'm not going to renew my subscription to this blog, I might consider subscribing to a blog version of the Article of the Day. In fact, if I had the time to do it on a daily basis, it might be interesting to copy the Article of the Day (available on Wikipedia's front page) and post it as a daily blog entry. Once I've got a month or so of blog articles, then add it to the Amazon blog listing. I'd more likely subscribe to this blog if I knew that the profits were going to the Wikipedia Foundation.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable and educational, February 16, 2010

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Casey A. "an avid reader" (California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Improve Your General Knowledge in Leisure Time! (Kindle Edition)

Unlike the other reviewers, I really enjoy this blog. It has a lot of interesting information, and it provides review quizzes, and crossword puzzles to help remember what you have learned. It is updated daily, which is nice, and the knowledge comes from a wide variety of topics.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mostly just a boring list of facts, January 28, 2010

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Marek Petrik - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Improve Your General Knowledge in Leisure Time! (Kindle Edition)

I did not find this blog very interesting. For the most part, it only includes boring facts, not a deeper discussion of interesting topics.