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Improve Your General Knowledge in Leisure Time!

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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.

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.

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

I was dissapointed by this. I expected real science news and not some fun facts.

I write blog reviews, which can be seen at The Kindle Blog Report, and I have to agree with the other reviews here... this blog simply provides trivia. Interesting to know, but it probably won't stick with you. Contrast that to a blog such as Broken Secrets that not only gives information on a wide variety of subjects, but also explains it a bit so that the whole blog entry stays with you, it is not forgotten just a few seconds after you've read it.

Having said that, there's nothing wrong with learning a piece of trivia a day...if just the bare facts will stay in your mind. However, these facts are easier to remember when they are placed in more of a context.