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Summary: Good book...
Review: The basic premise is that to read this book and solve mysteries you must periodically logon to their website. Depending on what happens on the website, you will be given the page number to continue reading the book.All we get from the website is "http Error 500--Internal Server Error". Can't create a User-ID, can't explore clues, and therefore cannot reasonably continue past page 22 of the book. Interesting that a failure to maintain a web-server can instantly render useless all previously sold related product (books). I'm not aware of anyone destroying a product-line quite so quickly and easily before (though I'm sure it's happened). Why did I rate this w/ only 1 star? Maybe because Amazon doesn't offer an option of "Minus 10 stars"... By the way, you can ping the website and get a decent turnaround time (about 150 to 170 milliseconds for us), but don't be mislead--it appears they are continuing to have catastrophic and unrecoverable problems w/ their server. Oh, one more thing. I clicked on their "contact support" link and sent an e-mail describing the problems. The e-mail bounced back: their support e-address is no longer working (I presume it did at some time). So, don't waste your time (or your parent's/children's time). Until this site has been up and running succesfully for at least 6 months to a year, I wouldn't trust it. Needless to say, just my humble opinion...
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Summary: Useless Book w/ out the (Chronically Unavailable) Website
Review: The basic premise is that to read this book and solve mysteries you must periodically logon to their website. Depending on what happens on the website, you will be given the page number to continue reading the book. All we get from the website is "http Error 500--Internal Server Error". Can't create a User-ID, can't explore clues, and therefore cannot reasonably continue past page 22 of the book. Interesting that a failure to maintain a web-server can instantly render useless all previously sold related product (books). I'm not aware of anyone destroying a product-line quite so quickly and easily before (though I'm sure it's happened). Why did I rate this w/ only 1 star? Maybe because Amazon doesn't offer an option of "Minus 10 stars"... By the way, you can ping the website and get a decent turnaround time (about 150 to 170 milliseconds for us), but don't be mislead--it appears they are continuing to have catastrophic and unrecoverable problems w/ their server. Oh, one more thing. I clicked on their "contact support" link and sent an e-mail describing the problems. The e-mail bounced back: their support e-address is no longer working (I presume it did at some time). So, don't waste your time (or your parent's/children's time). Until this site has been up and running succesfully for at least 6 months to a year, I wouldn't trust it. Needless to say, just my humble opinion...
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Summary: website connected book without a website
Review: The story was great. It made you feel like you were really in it. Thanks Jay Montavon!!! I've read all the others and they are really good too!!!! Read THE SERIES!!
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Summary: Amazing!!!!
Review: The story was great. It made you feel like you were really in it. Thanks Jay Montavon!!! I've read all the others and they are really good too!!!! Read THE SERIES!!
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Summary: Digital is Right!
Review: This book is really awesome! The web scenes are so fun. I can't wait to get Digital Detectives #2.
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Summary: website connected book without a website
Review: This series of mysteries (Digital Detectives) requires that you read part of the story, picking up clues and information. Then you are to go to the books website to search for more clues and directions on how to solve the mystery and proceed with your reading in the book. ONE BIG PROBLEM.. the WEB SITE IS NOT FUNCTIONING....IT's NOT AVAILABLE..
For the last month we have been trying to access the website...but no response... Numerous contacts with the publisher have been met with empty promises.. Yes, we are aware of the problem. Yes, someone is looking into it. Yes, we will have the technical problems worked out by next week...hopefully. And that was close to a month ago. Still no functioning website. My words of advice about this series...don't buy it! The publisher is not supporting the website, and without the website, the mystery is dead in the water.
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