Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Cracked.com is probably one of the best humor websites out there, and not just because it's funny. It also seeks to educate ("It's funny because it's true!"), and the amount of interesting and counter-intuitive information the website has gathered is staggering. It's even more staggering when you consider that a whole lot of it contradicts things we've been taught for years both in school and via the ol' "heard it somewhere" method of education. Much like Cracked's previous book, You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News: Shocking but Utterly True Facts, this is mostly just a compendium of stuff website devotees have already read online, with the material organized according to subject matter. I don't have a problem with the rehashed information, though. It's nice to have it cataloged and so easily accessible, and it's totally understandable to want to make a little coin off of the hard work they've been handing out for free. With the goal of disabusing readers of "facts" that the school's (and general life experience) tend to get wrong, the book is a treasure trove of interesting material presented with a casual, usually hilarious flair (and not without its small share of colorful language). It's a great book, and you should get it. The actual book, I mean. Avoid the Kindle version, for which I give a grouchy two stars. YOU MIGHT BE A ZOMBIE was modified like most books for Kindle, making it easy to read, resize the text, and even search for terms or highlight portions of the book. For some utterly baffling reason, this book has appeared to have been sent to Kindles in what I think is plain old PDF format, which means that it appears on the screen as a microscopic snapshot of each page. You can enlarge the pages, but this doesn't make things a lot easier, because the book refuses to be read in profile mode and is only accessible in landscape format, which means when you magnify it, you end up with a few small corners of each paragraph. You also cannot search for terms or highlight portions of the text. I'm not sure why this is the case, but I think part of it has something to do with the fact that the book (like the website) is meant to have illustrations and accompanying pictures, but the Kindle version has none. This by itself would just be bummer, except that the PDF format means that there are still giant blank spaces where the pictures should go, and even picture captions, but nothing to actually look at, making the whole enlarging/navigation aspect of the book even more troublesome. If, in the (hopefully near) future, they reformat the book and send it out to Kindles in a proper form, this review would leap up to five stars, but since this incredibly popular format of the novel is pretty much unreadable as it is, I'm afraid this negative review will have to stand as a warning to other die-hard Kindle fans.