There's one other use. If you didn't know how to spell Rachmaninoff, you could use the index to help both in spelling and in finding your pages. In the e-world, where you won't necessarily know how to spell a proper name, we'll have to develop something like an index if for nothing else. It will probably be a set of hyperlinks pointing to various parts of the book, or a set of proper names or even phrases in a search list for that book which would come as part of the book.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:18 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: indexes?
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. >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list >> of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. >> >> > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.***WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS AVAILABLE AThttp://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/Book_Requests.htm http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/ http://studentpages.alma.edu/~07jmyate/book_requests.htmA LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/scanning.htmlJake's site for useful links: http://www.jbrownell.com/bkslinks.html ____________________________________________________________________________________Like movies? Here's a limited-time offer: Blockbuster Total Access for one month at no cost.http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text4.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.-- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG.Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.3/1354 - Release Date: 4/1/2008 5:38 AM
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