<anchor xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="id_docs-internal-guid-9f56acc5-7fff-4a6e-05a0-07ec80c9d8ca" />This poster reports on the groundwork for the computational study of evaluative practices in German language book reviews. We trained classifiers for evaluation and sentiment at sentence level on the LOBO corpus, comprising ~1.3 million book reviews downloaded from the social reading platform LovelyBooks.