The New York Times

Look It Up? Only if You’re Dishonest and Ignorant

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Margalit Fox INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE A Bookish Adventure From Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital ...
Reason

Do you still use a book index?

Almost all books come with indexes in the back. These sections identify the most frequently-used words in the book, and list the pages those words appear on. Authors (generally) do not create these ...
The New York Times

A Smart, Playful Book About the Underappreciated Index

Dennis Duncan’s entertaining and informative “Index, A History of the” moves from the 13th-century origins of the form to the world of digital search engines. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...
Time

Index, A History of the

These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. The index, tucked away ...
The Economist

How the index changed reading, for better and worse

Index, A History of the. By Dennis Duncan. Allen Lane; 352 pages; £20. To be published in America by W.W. Norton in February; $30 PRODUCING AN INDEX is like squeezing “a grape in a winepress”, wrote a ...