Jay S.

Need to see product before I comment

Annoying. I want to buy a product. I doubt that I will need a repeat purcase. I don't feel it is necessary to provide my life history to do so.

Nothing will take the place of print books! There is a feeling, a panache if you will, in holding a book in your hands, in flipping pages back and forth and yes, in savoring the aroma of the pages, be they newly printed or reeking with the mustines that comes of great age in a quiet library. Kindle cannot match the timelessness of a print book. But they don't have to! What Amazon Kindle does is to enable new writers to essentially "self-publish" and to allow the market-place to decide the worth of the book on its own. It stands by itself, or it fails based on how it is received by the on-line community. And while Amazon has not yet figured out how to waft the aroma of books electronically, or to fold back the corner of a page for future reference, it succeeds in providing a convenient way to read a book -- nay, MANY books -- in a compact format. You can read on your computer screen, on a tablet or on a smart phone, limited only by the amount of charge in your battery. Kindle books are sometimes offered free for various periods of time. This is often a marketing tactic to stimulate demand for an author's work. Otherwise, Kindle books typically range from 99 cents to perhaps $9.99. They are delivered instantly to your reader and they are yours forever. Also, when you read a book on Kindle, you might love it enough to go out and buy a hard copy to grow old with... or to have the author sign. I just bought a hard copy of Caroline Glick's excellent analysis, "The Israeli Solution," after reading it on Kindle, and she signed it. Reader, go, search Kindle. Find a book that you have to read. Buy it. Read it. Repeat.

Everything everyone says about PeopleSmart is true. I've been with them for at least a year because I use them mainly to find telephone numbers. That part works most of the time. Otherwise, they are greedy bastards. I pay enough to have them do a search at least once a month, but they want to charge more for that. Their search engine adds letters to give wrong names and I had to call and complain to get satisfaction. They are arrogant and dismissive of their customers -- didn't care that I said I would drop the subscription.