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This review is pretty over the top negative. Not saying it's wrong, but the product has over a thousand reviews on Amazon.com and the average is four stars.

You can always take a trip out to best buy/target/etc. to play with it.

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That distribution of reviews doesn’t look very healthy. Compared to the other Kindles it’s doing badly as far as reviews are concerned.

So far I don't trust any kind of analysis of the reviews. One of the top negative reviews was, "Didn't have a camera. WTF. Returned."

Really? How could someone be so stupid as not to check something like that if it was that important to them?

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity" -- Robert A. Heinlein

That’s always going to happen. I think that looking at the distribution of reviews and also reading a few negative reviews (because it’s generally possible to figure out whether reviews are negative for valid reasons) is very helpful.

I know, but my thought is to give it a couple weeks, and the percent of noise should go down.

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