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Ladataan... Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age (vuoden 2022 painos)Tekijä: Dennis Duncan (Tekijä)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Fun take on book history. Takes you into all sorts of topics like alphabetical order in different cultures, and how people used books when they were scrolls. Also the tricky time when books had indexes but not page numbers! an interesting exploration of how the index came to be and whether it still has relevnce in the age of the search bar ( It does). so many things tha we take for granted in books, even page numbers, had their oriin somewhere and this book relates their origin stories with some humor and lots of appreciation A fun book, I probably would have preferred more history and less adventure: the author focuses on the droll, at the expense of the typical. It also seemed a wee bit teleological, something I've noticed in other books on older information technologies: an attempt to show that the World Wide Web represents continuity, not disruption, and that its impact on our reading is not disruptive so much as simply another development in a long series of changes. Which after all might be true, but it seems to me the jury is still out on that question. I wanted to love this book, but I only liked it. Duncan begins at monasteries in the Middle Ages, and finishes at Google. He touches on all the different kinds of indexes -- concordance, subject, table of contents, more -- that have appeared over time. He tells some good stories and shares some amusing and instructive examples. As befits a work with this title and topic, fully 40% of the book is end matter. There are two different indexes to compare -- one created by computer, using the best available current software, and one created by a human being. The human index is the hands-down winner. I am a bibliophile and a tech nerd, so very much in the demographic for this book. I found it only interesting. I recommend it, but I wish I had loved it. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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"Most of us give little thought to the back of the book-it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Duncan uncovers how it has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office, and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists' living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and-of course-indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart-and we have been for eight hundred years"-- Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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