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Originally Posted by fbrzvnrnd
Publisher use it. We use it, and year by year, more and more are using it to create indexes and other tools to read, search, navigate ebooks. Tools? We have a language to query microdata: XQuery. And tools like ePubEditor that allows query "live".
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The concept of the index is really rather old technology. To be honest, I have only seen a decrease in the quality of the index in the past ten years. An average letterpress book usually had a very good index as standard, compiled from galley proofs on index cards with a pen. These days an index is usually a smattering of key words with little intelligence applied in its compilation. Certainly hyperlinked footnotes are very useful, and search, but what else are you bringing to this that constitutes such a marvellous horizon in the prospects for digital books? Do you have any examples to point out?