Something is going awry with my writing today. I wrote a long post this morning, and just as I was finishing, the computer went through a scan and shut down. The post was lost. Now the blog platform will not allow me to type past the link I include here for Hazel Bell's book. I guess I will do all of my typing before the link. I am excited to read this book. It is definitely a treat for those of us who have indexed for years, and who, when asked, "What do you do?" draw blank stares, or, like utter rude, "Wow, that sounds boring, dull, awful" like the endodontist who had his fingers in my mouth, so I couldn't reply. I thought, you put your hands in people's diseased mouth's all day, and my work with books is boring? Hehe. Here is the quote from Swift on the back cover: The most accomplished way of using books at present is twofold: either, first, to serve them as men do lords--learn their titles exactly and then brag of their acquaintance' or, secondly, which is, indeed, the choicer, the profounder and politer method, to get a thorough insight into the index, by which the whole book is governed and turned, like fishes by the tail. For to tenter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back door. Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub (1701). Here is the link. Indexers and Indexes in Fact & Fiction.