Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Overpriced and for the novice with little initiative

This book is about the size of cliff notes and reads like your buddy giving you some advice. There is very little detail or useful information that you can't find in product brochures or looking on the web with very little effort. If you're thinking of upgrading to HDV from a camcorder and you have very little initiative to seek out any information on the web or from a substantial book on HD and you don't like to read more than 100 pages then this book is for you.I wouldn't have a problem if the book was priced at $4.95, but at close to $25 it's a rip off.