Lou, I'm just recovering from a migraine and can't read this too carefully, but it seems to me that you are suggesting that the readers of a book review should already have read the book. This seems bizarre. You also seem to think that only books the editor of a journal has read should be reviewed. This too seems bizarre. If I have already read a book, I want articles, not reviews. I read reviews of books I haven't read, & I expect them to make sense without reading the book -- in fact their purpose is to help me decide if I want to read the book or not. I may have misunderstood your post -- but the points I have made are true in principle whether or not they apply to your post. Carrol
