Dan's book-why an index???

[Marian Petrides]

 >>>>Of what earthly value is an index in an electronic book you can 
search? Isn't an index sort of redundant? I've never once seen a PDF 
book with an index I thought was at all useful.

Not if you print the PDF and use the hard copy.

I prefer to read hard copy books--largely because I like highlighting 
and annotating them with marginal notes. I seriously thought of buying 
the hardcopy version but I wanted your book yesterday (as opposed to in 
a week or two post-shipping). Sooooo... I bought it and promptly 
printed it out--all 300 pages plus or minus.  Now I use the hardcopy 
exclusively.  As a consequence, the lack of an index is a real drawback 
for me.

FWIW, I gather others also are printing the whole thing out because 
someone was bemoaning the cost of getting Kinko's to print and bind the 
PDF.

If you've already done an index, why would you not include it in the 
PDF??  Is there a way for purchasers of the PDF to get the index, too?

Marian


On Feb 28, 2004, at 12:26 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:

> Marian....
>
> Enlighten me please.
>
> Of what earthly value is an index in an electronic book you can 
> search? Isn't an index sort of redundant? I've never once seen a PDF 
> book with an index I thought was at all useful.
>
> The printed version does have an index, by the way.
>
> On Feb 27, 2004, at 5:22 AM, Marian Petrides wrote:
>
>> One thing that is sorely missing in the PDF version (and I assume, 
>> thus, in the printed version) of the first volume is an index.  I 
>> hope that when the third volume is complete it will include an index 
>> for the entire set.
>>
>> Marian
>>
>> On Feb 27, 2004, at 1:22 AM, Bruce Robertson wrote:
>>
>>>>>
>>>> I've been trying for several days to buy the downloadable
>>>> (electronic/PDF) version of Dan Shafer's book but cannot find a link
>>>> that takes me to where it is available.  All links I have found are 
>>>> for
>>>> the hardcopy version which is  a) not immediately available and b) 
>>>> more
>>>> expensive.
>>>
>>>
>>> And c) says it comes with a CD but it doesn't. I've brought this up 
>>> with
>>> Runrev and they're looking into it.
>>>
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