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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 12h

Of course not! I like my duckies too much for that.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 15h

And this was for uni students, to be clear.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 15h

The visual cues and physical engagement seemed to work. Once you are out of ducks, you can’t talk again until everyone is out of ducks. If you’re the last one with ducks and you still have 3, it’s soliloquy time. Usually only had to do this a few times to train the students.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 15h

This is for the contribution (not reading) side. In seminars, I gave all students 3 small rubber ducks. You had to use all your ducks by end of class by contributing to discussion. You then throw the duck at me. If the contribution is just “I agree with Joe” I throw the duck back.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My job involves important decisions, but I make the tough calls. I am leaving in the index, as the final entry, this gem: Zoom: unmuting for farts. #IndexSky

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And they were the ones to contact me! It’s maddening. Hoping you hear back from whomever you’re waiting on.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I wonder how often my reply gets flagged as spam for unknowable reasons.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m so sorry for your loss. This is LeClerc. He gave the best biscuits. He was also a c*ck-blocker toward my husband in bed. Very possessive little furball. He was not a clever cat (not at all the grey eminence he was named after), but he was my little boy and I miss him dearly.

Grey and white adult cat, domestic short hair, draped over the left shoulder of a person whose back is to the camera.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Illuminae Files by Kaufman. Great series. Sci-fi.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Title Wave in Roseville, Minnesota. I remember it as dark, carpeted, and magical. I can still recall where various genres were on the floor: against the wall, rack in the middle back, etc. I loved going and browsing the films on offer.

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Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org · 29/08/2026

Anyone have any indexing horror stories they care to share please for a presentation I’m doing soon? Like what can happen between index submission and what actually got printed in the book. I do have some examples of my own, which still make me shudder. 😱 #IndexSky

Black and white still image from the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein of Elsa Lanchester with a white lightning streak in her dark conical hairdo. She is looking upwards and screaming.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think Pencil is convinced his brother, the cat who went walk-about, has been replaced by a changeling. Hisses, no grooming for the prodigal cat. That or it’s his way of saying “you stink; come back after you take a bath.”

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

He’s back! He was meowing at the window this morning after a major rainstorm. Three days of 100% guilt and anxiety now over. He’s none the worse for wear, just stinky. I think the rain made him rethink the joys of the outdoors. Here’s a picture of him curled up with another traveller.

Mackerel tabby cat, Chalk, curled up asleep beside a stuffie of Padington Bear. Both on a blue-grey poang chair.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My cat got out and I’m trying not to freak out/think the worst. I’ve set out food, litter, his cushion, treats. Hoepfully the familiar smells being him home…

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Make a band bigger Flock of Albatrosses

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you. Hi, I’m an open storm drain that invitingly beckoned to a crawling baby, who wiggled over halfway in before being denied a life with the TMNTs.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Depends on the word count. Very roughly, just the embedded index for a 100,000 word ttrpg text would be $1000 CAD.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I don’t use ID’s tool. I use Index-Manager to index embedded texts. Never done typesetting work, so I’m not advocating ID, just relaying what I know.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I don’t know ebook creation software, so can’t say what they use. I know people who have used InDesign to typeset their books before generating the ebook, and had an embedded index created through InDesign.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Modules too! Somoften when running a campaign I need to look up details about an NPC, item, etc.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Embedded indexing is the way to go for this. With an embedded index you can generate links from the index to the code-tagged text.

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Sarah Oelker (buxuyaojieguo) @buxuyaojieguo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Academic authors: don't let your book index be your villain origin story; hire a professional indexer. We're worth the cost and you deserve the saved sanity. (I gripe, but I do also enjoy this sort of question.)

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Society of Indexers @indexers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

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Becoming an indexer 2: the Society of Indexers training course modules

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Along with the full bursary, ISC/SCI has awarded BenJamin Johnson a 6-month runner-up membership. Congratulations, Saleh! Congratulations Jamin, and welcome!

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indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

2026 Diversity in Canadian Publishing Bursary (indexers.ca/2026-diversi...) ISC/SCI is pleased to announce that Saleh Waziruddin is the 2026 ISC/SCI Diversity in Canadian Publishing Bursary for Indexers recipient. Saleh is South Asian, a freelance editor, and an anti-racism activist.

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2026 Diversity in Canadian Publishing Bursary Recipient: Saleh Waziruddin - Indexers.ca

The Indexing Society of Canada / Société canadienne d’indexation (ISC/SCI) is pleased to announce that Saleh Waziruddin is the 2026 ISC/SCI Diversity in Canadian Publishing Bursary for Indexers recipi...

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Does it work for the waves of exhaustion that hit mid-day?

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Grumble. Really wish small businesses/freelancers would have a website, even a free one, not just IG. I can’t see your stuff without an account and I’m not signing up for IG. Missing all those terrible-but-great angelfire and geocities sites.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A2: I pass on doing the project. I sympathize with their budget needs/limits, but I have my own financial needs to consider, weighed against what my time is worth.

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pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Maybe, but there’s some usability evidence that reading a lot of italics is a strain for some readers. Maybe just a differenct, distinct font?

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

— Example story, I said. I asked this question on Bluesky, hoping that smart fiction editors had some thoughts on it. "This makes my head hurt,” said Jane Doe. "I agree, Jane,” I said. — It was indeed a puzzling situation. Both options looked weird. — Grandpa, what happened next? Jonny said.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Haven’t dealt with this, but what if you used a mix of anglophone and nonanglophone styles? So quotation marks for, let’s say, interior-story dialogue and leading em dashes for the frame story’s?

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Reminds me of a 1-star review of a hotel in Italy from over a decade ago: The tv only had shows in Italian, nothing in English.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 09/06/2026

Hi, PM @mark-carney.bsky.social. AI was created from my stolen work. How are you planning to compensate the many Canadian authors like me who have been ripped off by these companies you laud? Technology built on theft is not what any country needs.

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

This infuriates me in a way that I cannot explain. The problem of the disappearing native informants is bad enough in western scholarship without AI allowing the eliding of that labor in this way. Brill should be ashamed for publishing this.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Daily Star Trek Quiz. Random stills of computer screens or just Data’s hands.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Cautionary tale my PhD advisor told: People kept citing a particular manuscript from an archive. One day, prof is in archive and calls it up. It doesn’t exist. Never did. One guy made it up and for years everyone else cited his fake manuscript as a real thing in support of their own arguments.

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Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I see your Math Blasters and raise you

Operatune Neptune. Copyright 1991. The Learning Company.

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