Review: Poorly Written Hype
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 16, 2014
I downloaded this title for free. It apparently normally sells for $2.99 or $4.99 which for 22 pages of thin content is pretty outrageous. It's worse when you get into the book itself. By and large, you won't learn much from the book above and beyond what you'd get from any cursory scanning of Google's own marketing pages.The book itself is poorly formatted. Paragraphs lack an extra line in between and most also lack an indent making it difficult to discern paragraph breaks at times. (Inexplicably, a few paragraphs *do* have indentation of the first word.) Sentences sometimes seem to have odd ordering of words; at other times, words seem to have been omitted requiring one to stop and try to puzzle out what the writer was trying to say.I also got the impression that the author did a last-minute re-arranging of the text without reading it afterwards leading to a couple of "huh?" moments while reading the text.The author omits commas in places where they would have been helpful and adds commas inappropriately in other places. In both situations, the punctuation slows the reading down.While the book could use a good edit, it really is in desperate need for justification. Honestly, there is not a lot to be learned by reading the book. Most of it seems to be, as I said, a re-hash of Google's marketing literature right down to how wonderful life will be when companies learn our habits so that they can tailor products that better meet our wants and needs. The author does add a couple of pages at the end where he plays "devil's advocate" and grudgingly concedes that some people might find privacy issues crop up. There are no pictures in the book and the writing is so cursory that you won't close the book with any comprehension of what Google Glass looks like. I got the impression that the author had never actually used Google Glass himself.Do yourself a favor and head on over to Google's pages about Glass where you'll learn more. If you want anything in depth, look somewhere else.