: Re: Are back-of-the-book indexes useful? Are back-of-the-book indexes useful in electronic texts? I'm aware that people can search for anything they want in an electronic text and be taken there at

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Yes! Indexes are useful because they can contain entries pointing the reader to a page which discusses a topic without actually mentioning the topic's word.

E.G. A biography might talk about a person's difficult relationship with his wife. The book pages may say words like "relationship came under strain" and mention "Annie" repeatedly, but the index can add other words like "wife" and "break-up".

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