[bksvol-discuss] Re: indexes?
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:18:00 -0700 (PDT)
When my daughter was in fifth grade, she had to
include an index in her term paper. I'd never heard of
such a thing, and how tedious that was. Now I suspect
computer programs do the indexing, and I doubt that
authors have have anything to do with it, though I may
be wrong.
The main purpose of an index, at least as I use them,
is for finding specific information in a book that one
has not, and has no plans to, read completely. For
example, if I had a book on music history and I want
to find out when Rachmaninoff left Russia, I'd check
the index for Rachmaninoff and go to the pages that
mentioned his name. In an electronic book, as was
pointed out, one really doesn't have to use an index;
one can simply use Find to find a page with the
subject on it. I never thought of that before; I just
thought one could use Find wth the index. Maybe that's
why no one has ever asked me to perfect one.
G.Cindy
--- Chris Hill <hillco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Since most authors don't index their own books
> anyway, perhaps it is
> equally redundant.
>
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:58:17 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >Your analogy is faulty. Putting Do Not Eat warnings
> on inedible objects is
> >simply redundant. Knowing what an author thinks is
> important is not.
> >
> >Evan
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Chris Hill" <hillco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 9:46 PM
> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] indexes?
> >
> >
> >> May be a stupid question, but why does one need
> an index when any
> >> decent computer has a search function? Sure, it
> may be nice to know
> >> what the author felt was important enough to put
> in an index, but that
> >> seems about as important as the do not eat
> warnings printed all over
> >> inedible objects. I've tried to include indexes
> when I scan just
> >> because I figured if nobody wanted it they could
> remove it, but the
> >> whole practice seems rather pointless.
> >>
> >>
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