[bksvol-discuss] Re: Should I scan the index?
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:04:44 -0400
I scan the index but I don't do much with it as far as editing. It isn't core
content but it is part of the book. That is just my opinion though. Smile.
Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Should I scan the index?
I am currently scanning a book with which I am almost finished. In order to
get the best scan possible I have been scanning one page at a time and reading
and correcting each page before I go on to the next one. As I approach the
index I am considering some things. Since I lost my eyesight twenty-one years
ago I have never used an index and back when I was reading print books I rarely
used them. On the few occasions that I did use an index I was writing research
papers and I was looking for specific information with no intention of actually
reading the entire book in question. It occurs to me that every use I have ever
had for an index and every use that I can think of that anyone else would have
for an index can be accomplished much more easily with the search functions
built into nearly, and possibly all, devices that are likely to be used to read
books in electronic format. These considerations plus the fact that if I do
scan the index, especially if I scan it the way I have been scanning the rest
of the book, I will be in for a really tedious and boring job, make me wonder
if I should bother with it. What are your opinions?
"Philosophers have merely interpreted the world in various
ways; the point is to change it." Karl Marx
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