# Is there such thing as a complete book-review aggregator?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 19, 2012, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-such-thing-as-a-complete-book-review-aggregator/622472 "2012-05-19T23:35:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-such-thing-as-a-complete-book-review-aggregator/622472/1 "2012-05-19T23:35:46Z")

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Suppose I want to gather and read all published reviews of a given book. Is there a single resource where I can go that will post or link or at least list-with-source-cites all such reviews? (Google ain’t cuttin’ it.)

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-such-thing-as-a-complete-book-review-aggregator/622472/2 "2012-05-29T17:54:46Z")

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Nobody knows?

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**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-such-thing-as-a-complete-book-review-aggregator/622472/3 "2012-05-29T19:24:09Z")

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There is a magazine called “Bookmarks” which does this. [http://www.bookmarksmagazine.com/](http://www.bookmarksmagazine.com/)

also the site metacritic used to do books. not sure they do anymore.

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**Author:** ![punch\_line\_loser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e7dd6/32.png) [@punch\_line\_loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/punch_line_loser)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-such-thing-as-a-complete-book-review-aggregator/622472/4 "2012-05-29T20:49:10Z")

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I’ve been thinking about getting on the All Media Guide folks’ case about this…