Elizabeth K. JosephI've been reading "Index, A History of the" and it's so geeky good. Insults in indexes, satirical indexes, people hundreds of years ago who thought indexes would make people lazy because they'd read the index instead of the book.
@clive Have you read it? I think you'd enjoy it!
Index, A History of the
A <em>New York Times</em> Editors' Choice Book and a <em>New Yorker</em> Best Book of 2022 So Far<br /> Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Literary Hub and Goodreads<br /><br /> A playful history of the humble index and its outsized effect on our reading lives., Index, A History of the, A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age, Dennis Duncan, 9781324050513
Clive Thompson