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Originally Posted by meeera
As far as I can see, the better solution to the problem is simply for the user to use the tools that ebooks have that print books don't: namely, the electronic searching that is already inbuilt. Back-of-the-book indices are an obsolete tool relevant only to paper books.
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You should give that
Page Numbers topic a thorough read.
I see Page Numbers + Indexes as closely related topics, but maybe we should keep this topic JUST towards discussing how to add the Page Numbers to the EPUBs/MOBIs.
I wouldn't mind if you contributed your thoughts back in that topic though. Just ignore that "This thread is
quite old" warning and post your own input. I think more people need to see/read it!
Quick Side Note: Search in an ebook, while absolutely fantastic = a Concordance (a list of all the words in a book).
A well-made/well-curated Index is superior, because it can handle more
broad AND more
specific cases where Search fails.
Here are the the examples I gave (Post #139 if you are interested):
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
The superiority of the Index is the human curation.
They can tackle more specific topics that you can't get through a simple search. For example:
"Ricardo, David -> law of association, 158–163, 168, 174"
If you did a search for "Ricardo", you may get a ton of different hits (43 hits in this book), or if you did a search for "law of association" you may get a whole other host of hits (10 hits). But if you wanted to know about David Ricardo's law of association... that is a different beast.
Or an Index can cover much broader topics such as "Ancestry" (which would cover "ancestor" + all related terms/words).
An Indexer also makes sure that all the irrelevant mentions are not needed. (Aristotle might be mentioned 10 times in the book, but in only 2 cases is he actually relevant to the text).
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