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I have one acquaintance who wants to have a mass of words in his magnum opus to be in an index with the page location of each word and the page location linked back to the word. He also wants this to show in an azw3/kfx Kindle format conversion.

You would see a word index (I can't bring myself to call it a concordance) where clicking on the page number e.g. 76 would move to that page in ebook preferably with the cursor on the word aardvark.

aardvark pg. 1, pg. 14, pg. 49, pg. 76
syzygy pg. 21, pg 48, pg. 103

My suggestion was that he forget the idea since a reflowable ebook does not have fixed page numbers and creating the index he wants would take an incredible amount of work for no real gain.

His argument is that there must be an automated solution to doing this task pointing at AntConc 3.5.8 as an example, the other example he pointed out was written in Fortran and has not been maintained since the 80's.

I'm asking for any feedback from anyone who has managed a similar task.

Edit: could an moderator change the title to all words instead of all works? Please?

Edit2: Thanks!