What we say when we talk about indexing
Posted on: 31/03/2026
Happy National Indexing Day 2026! Today is all about encouraging people to think about indexes (those incredibly useful things at the back of books and other publications that direct readers to the good stuff), and the people (those incredibly useful things with creative, thinking minds) who write them for a living. So, to gear us
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Authors as Indexers
Posted on: 08/10/2025
Should authors index their own books, or is the job best left to professional indexers? In this post, indexer and author David Green explores the pros and cons of self-indexing. Are authors the best people to index their own work? Certainly, they know their subject matter inside out, and they understand the book’s structure and
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