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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Reviews from Amazon are no more reliable than those from the publisher themselves... they are all skewed to sell you the book. Reviews should come from a fully-impartial third party, like a site or magazine dedicated to reviewing, not selling.
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The reviews published by Amazon itself are skewed, but the customer reviews seem to run the gamut. As far as a completely independent site or magazine, like Consumer Reports... well, funding is often a problem for an operation like that.