Bobby Lee
varsha the hot dam historianso obviously i'm sad twitter died, mainly because i got a lot of my indexing jobs that way, so if you need to have a book indexed, hire me! (please reblog this academics)
my email is varshanet@ gmail.com - if you want to hire me to index your book
TheSecondVariationSorry for your loss. Maybe you can give some examples of your work? I have a hard time imagining what indexing a book actually entails.
@varsha_venkat
You might also want to add this info to your bio, or a pinned toot on your profile (or both) for better visibility.
You might also want to add this info to your bio, or a pinned toot on your profile (or both) for better visibility.
@gergely i will do this!!
lizzzzard@varsha_venkat @gergely you could try adding hashtags, too. To the profile and the post. Not sure which ones are relevant to your field though.
Wes Hutto
Fai Tosuratana@varsha_venkat love that you said reblog. very tumblr
@faiwasimon this is basically tumblr but nerdy isn't it?
Prachi Deshpande@varsha_venkat I wish I had known last month - I did mine myself, rather in a hurry too, but will bookmark for the future.
Voradams 
ℊesslar@varsha_venkat Hi, could you share what book indexing is?
@gesslar basically book indexing is combing through the book and making the list of terms, names, ideas, etc that's in the back of a non-fiction book. it usually takes around 40-50 hours for most books!
Toasties@varsha_venkat @gesslar solid work! Sounds incredibly boring 🤣
Irvin Lin@varsha_venkat thankfully my publisher paid for a book indexer for my cookbook (as it would have been quite expensive), but I have GREAT respect for your profession after seeing what a fantastic job they did. It’s a LOT of work!
ZZ Bottom@varsha_venkat Welcome😀
@varsha_venkat what is indexing job? asking out of curiosity...
@marcinpaprzycki basically it's the back of an academic book where the names/terms/themes are listed alphabetically and with page numbers so people can find them easily. (in a book about flowers, the index would have the main species and names listed out with page references as an example)
Adam Birnbaum@varsha_venkat @marcinpaprzycki I was curious about this too! So you construct the entire thing by hand, or do you start with software that makes a first guess?
RDS (shawphd on Twitter)@abirnbaum @marcinpaprzycki @varsha_venkat Also an indexer here: it’s a human brain process to identify and describe the significant concepts, but most indexers use software to help with sorting, formatting, and record management. #indexing
@shawrd773 @marcinpaprzycki @varsha_venkat so cool! That means you have to actually read the books and understand them. So do indexers usually specialize in one area,like history or literary criticism? If so, how narrow of a specialty can you have and still get enough work?
@abirnbaum @marcinpaprzycki @varsha_venkat It depends! Some fields are highly technical (e.g. medicine) so you need indexers who can grok the concepts and know the audience for book and index. Other areas place equal value on being able to engage with a wider range of topics and audiences. (I’m in the middle, myself. You can see my areas at my profile if you want examples.)
@abirnbaum @marcinpaprzycki i do it completely by hand yes, i have never tried a software but i bet it doesn't work well with books in the humanities (and i've even done some data science books and it probably doesn't work well with those either)
@varsha_venkat is this not done automatically? strange ;-)
Doug McInnes@varsha_venkat consigning Twitter to history is premature no?
@km18 it might be, but i also consider it a fundamentally different app than it was before elno bought it.
@varsha_venkat @km18 yeah I guess you wouldn't join truth social even if that's where you could get work. Social media platforms really are not just neutral "market squares". My presence on Twitter is a small act that supports everything that happens there, good and bad.
Mirishuli@km18 @varsha_venkat Twitter with racist, Nazis and Trump set free is a very different place. Also, It’s hemorrhaging cash now. Advertising is going to crash because who wants to be know to be supporting Nazi’s, slavery, antiSemitism. Plus, the code will continue to degrade because he’s fired almost everyone. Institutional knowledge is gone. It will take weeks to completely break down. The copyright filters failed yesterday and people were posting whole movies.
@MiriShuli @varsha_venkat well it does seem that a lot of people have very strong feelings about it. Which I think is a bit of a shame. I mean why not just wait and see how it turns out? I must say though that I am enjoying my experience with Mastodon and like what I’ve understood of the Fediverse so far.
Adara Astin@varsha_venkat Varsha, if you repost that and add hashtags, it will make it much easier for people to find you. Mastodon runs on the engine of hashtags.
Rob Drew@varsha_venkat thanks may very well take you up on this :)
@slobster48602 sure! let me know if you do need my info/rates/past work/references via email, varshanet @ gmail.com
@varsha_venkat sure will, waiting on reviews of final (🙏) draft from publisher at the moment
PVs- DR. Artist Marcia X@varsha_venkat bookmarking~
@CaribenxMarciaX thank you! if you need my email to ask questions or get a quote, it's in my bio 💜
@varsha_venkat in the future one day im sure you will hear from me
i hope you get many gigs!
Szymon Nowicki@varsha_venkat sorry is it’s a silly question. What is book indexing?
@hey basically it's the back of the book where the nonfiction book's terms/dates/names/events/themes/concepts are alphabetised and put with page-reference numbers so people can easily find them (in a book about winston churchill for example the index would include things like "early life", "world war i", or "hitler, adolf"
@varsha_venkat got it. TIL
Caledonia 🏴@varsha_venkat @hey You explained that so much better with correct terminology. I should have looked for responses before I did it myself as a reader 😳🤭
@hey @varsha_venkat Im assuming if it’s eg a recipe book, then the indexer lists by category (soup/starter/main/dessert)(chicken, beef, pasta, seafood), recipe name, ingredients etc and includes page number so that the reader can search.
Wilko Hardenberg@varsha_venkat bookmarking this so that I find your ref should I need it
@wilko thank you! you can always email me at varshanet@ gmail.com if you need to get my references or quote ❤️
Wshs@varsha_venkat but twitter didn't die yet!
@wshs sadly i don't know if it has long
@varsha_venkat that's actually going to be interesting as if it doesn't die, itll be something. I like twitter though and don't mind Elon Musk.
@varsha_venkat There are a lot of us indexers here! If you hashtag #indexing or #indexodon we’ll find you!
Panda 
@varsha_venkat not an academic, but boosting anyway! Best of luck! :D
Jón Grétar@varsha_venkat I seriously doubt twitter will die. It’s still growing and most of it’s users have probably not heard of the internal struggles. Even if it goes bankrupt it’s too valuable of a property and will be saved without disruption of service.
Yoda@varsha_venkat twitter is not dead its still up
Neon Eggplant@varsha_venkat twitter didn't die
iAmPatience (they/them)@varsha_venkat ... does that mean you go thru books and create the back page indexes for them?
Sheila Liming@varsha_venkat I may well require such services again in the future so glad to see you made it over here
Katharine Kate Holden@varsha_venkat I hope you find your network here and get good jobs again.
Buzz Lightyear💥@varsha_venkat
Varsha, the mechanism used by Mastodon world to search and find things is the hash tag…#books 😉
Varsha, the mechanism used by Mastodon world to search and find things is the hash tag…#books 😉