Li praises Lin as a "super-high-level bookseller," and feels that "you can hear in his voice his command of the subject matter when he speaks off the cuff." Lin understands more about Taiwanese history than some of the scholars at the Academia Sinica.
李敖推崇林漢章是「超高水準的老闆」，「言談間可以感受他『掌風』的威力」，李敖覺得，林漢章對台灣史的瞭解甚至比中央研究院的學者高明。