A question for readers of periodicals. I've been trying to deal with the
rather large pile of books that have arrived at _Gig_ HQ in the past year.
In large part the backlog is due to the Peter Riley issue, which took a lot
of time to produce & unlike other issues contained no reviews. Anyway, many
periodicals past & present have run "Books Received" lists. That is
tempting, but as far as I can see does little more than assuage the editor's
guilt; are these lists really of great interest & use to readers? anyone
really _use_ these sections of the journal? -- I tend to feel too that one
of the primary jobs of a journal is to sort through the books received, not
just list them; otherwise it's a bit of a cop-out isn't it. (I suppose one
might circumvent this by marking which books were most worthwhile with a
star.)
all best --N
Nate & Jane Dorward
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