Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Outdated, plus it doesn't live up to its potential

Cyberbooks was written in 1989, and is based on the premise that one day books will be delivered electronically to handheld devices, instead of printed on paper. Since you're reading this on ( ), you know that this was not particularly visionary - it's true today, barely a decade later. Even at that time, this was pretty easy to predict. That's not the book's main problem though. The problem is, it's pretty dumbed-down. I had read the Exiles Trilogy by the author a couple of times, and was disappointed by this book. I know he can write better. There are parts that read like Bova was going for a farce, but it's unclear - it may just be bad writing. The book also has some totally unnecessary about the Japonese. Get the Exiles Trilogy, not this one.