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Sometime in late 1987 I asked a colleague for specialist advice in text management software and commented that he ought to write down the overview of text management systems which emerged. It seems that other people were telling him the same thing and he took us at our word. Text Retrieval & Document Databases by J Ashford & P Willett (Chartwell‐Bratt £6.95) is the result, a review of the history and present status of text management and a description of the logical basis of current products. And it sparked this article.