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Re: Book recommendation: Indexing Books vs. The Art of Indexing
Subject:Re: Book recommendation: Indexing Books vs. The Art of Indexing From:Ann Hastings <explorer227 -at- juno -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 28 Nov 2002 21:23:31 -0800
Indexing Books by Nancy Mulvany answers all your indexing questions. It
is much more comprehensive than Bonura's book. I have studied both books,
and Mulvany is the best. It is also the book used as a textbook in the
well-respected Basic Indexing course sponsored by the USDA.
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 14:36:12 +0100 "Ternes, Andreas"
<aternes -at- invitec -dot- com> writes:
>
> Hi all,
>
> if budget lets me buy only one book on indexing (because books from
> the USA are very expensive in Germany), which can you recommend?
>
> Indexing Books by Nancy Mulvany
> or The Art of Indexing by Larry Bonura
>
> The rating on amazon is better for the first one, but I don't want
> to make a decision based only on amazon's customer reviews.
>
> Or are there other (better) books about indexing you would recommend?
Or do
> you know online tutorials about indexing? I have the CMOS, so "Indexes:
A Chapter from the Chicago Manual of Style" isn't an alternative.
>
> TIA and greetings from Germany
>
> Andreas Ternes
> technical writer
> INVITEC GmbH & Co. KG
> Düsseldorfer Landstr. 17
> D-47249 Duisburg
> fon +49 (0)203 7129-311
> fax +49 (0)203 7129-333
> aternes -at- invitec -dot- com
> www.invitec.com
>
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