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Improve Your General Knowledge in Leisure Time! |  | Author: G.R.
Publisher: G.R.
Category: Digital Text Feeds
Buy New: $0.99
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 2463
Format: Blog Subscription
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B002MUB11S
Publication Date: September 2, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Product Description
It provides readers with information that people should know as their general knowledge; 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.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Enjoyable and educational February 17, 2010
Casey A. (California, USA)
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.
 Just Trivia February 15, 2010
Digger's Domain (Minneapolis, MN)
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.
 Dictionary definitions January 31, 2010
Fred Coulter (DeLand, FL)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
Mostly just a boring list of facts January 28, 2010
Marek Petrik
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I did not find this blog very interesting. For the most part, it only includes boring facts, not a deeper discussion of interesting topics.
Not for news searchers January 23, 2010
C. Geczy
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was dissapointed by this. I expected real science news and not some fun facts.
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