I've never gotten much out of a book review & don't understand why people read or write them.

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@niplav It's definitely a genre from the dead-tree era. I think the idea used to be that you would subscribe to N periodicals, and it was assumed you wouldn't hear about anything beyond that bubble without someone in one of your periodicals specifically giving you the reference and a detailed description.

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