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I READ WITH particular interest P R McKenna's observations in this issue on librarians as book‐reviewers (which I did as part of my normal proof‐reading duties). As a publisher, and to a much lesser extent as author, I have been on the receiving end of book‐review criticism for a great many years, and though my epidermis has thickened in that time, it is still occasionally penetrated by advanced crassness or irresponsibility.