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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'd love to be considered for indexing if you haven't already secured someone

📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Am I too late for this? I wrote something for The Indexer about finding the wrong index being published in a book. I couldn't get the press to divulge how it happened. The other horror was a small press that then retypeset the book at a smaller size after I had done the index.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I index for academics and often they are only concerned with the argument their book is putting forth and that's how some topics get missed. If you read the book thinking of it as being on the periphery of another discipline suddenly a lot more gets picked up.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

When you say manually, do you mean with index cards? Yes! That's where the name for them comes from. There's software that makes indexing less painful, but it's usually not worth the time to learn it well enough for it to be a time saver for only one book. Most indexers use dedicated software.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Missing entries in an index often reveals the bias of the indexer. It wasn't deemed important enough to pick up. Sometimes that is because the author is indexing the book and they have very particular ideas of what to index. Or the indexer doesn't know how to meet a very short index length.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Ugh. Sounds like not a lot of eyes have looked at that work! There are some publishers I charge more for, because of their lack of diligence on copy editing and proofreading.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There are reports of LLMs creating citations that don't exist, and legal cases that don't exist. The only way to know if something is truly in the book or on the page numbers give, is for someone to check the work of the LLM.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Indexers are often the last set of fresh eyes on a proof. I recently had one of the cleanest proofs I've ever worked on and it had a typo that had been missed by everyone.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Factual errors I point out, or rather I should say I question are layout errors... "the images in these plates do not match the titles or descriptions are you sure they are correct?"

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Congratulations! You are almost there. If you don't have an indexer yet, start your search now to find someone who is a good fit. The following have searchable directories of indexers. @asindexing.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexers.bsky.social

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

@stephenullstrom.bsky.social has written a good book for non-indexers. There are also indexers such as myself who will provide a review and feedback of your index for a fraction of the cost of an index.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Don't focus solely on your contribution to the field, that is only your peers. Include interdisciplinary scholars and the undergrads! You do need to index information that might seem obvious or old hat to you, but could be a learning opportunity for someone new to the field.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Having tee shirts made that say "everything I know I learned from reading books in fields I wasn't trained in" who wants one?

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Getting ready to present and then take in American Society for Indexing @asindexing.bsky.social's two-day conference. AI & indexing, the state of scholarly publishing and indexing during disasters. Relevant to this academic indexer and her summer indexing locale in wildfire territory. #BookIndexer

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I was just wrapping up a book on contemporary music and so the concept of the supergroup band was in my brain. I imagined indexers already famous in their own right, coming together to form a three or four-headed indexer or indexing company that focuses on music. Tagline: we never miss a beat.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Metamaniculism in action! And a letterpress souvenir is always a win

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Indexing about the early years of advertising films and the ethics of being transparent that a travelogue was an advertising vehicle. #AmIndexing 📽️ #AcademicSky

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

My Grandfather's Cat is a legitimate nationwide charity that helps place the pets of those at the end of their lives. If you are in Ontario and are looking for a cat, please assist. FB link (do not read the comments) www.facebook.com/mygrandfathe...

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Morley loves to spend his days curled by beside his human on the couch to nap. He is a little shy with people that he does not know but once he gets to know you, or you call his name, he will show you affection affection.
While Morley is an indoor cat, he loves to watch the birds in his backyard. So much so, he has learned how to open the shutters to see out the window!
Availability: May 19, 2026
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🏡 Morley is looking for a second forever home without children or other animals. He is looking for a quiet home, with someone who will make him the centre of attention and love him just as deeply as his human did.
His human is hoping to keep him until her last day on May 18, and have Morley move to his second forever home on May 19, if possible.
If you are interested in adopting Morley, email melanie@mygrandfatherscat.ca with the subject line MORLEY See less

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Hear you! The first year is strange, especially if it comes after a long time of living with the 'quirks'. I just finished my first Sjogren's awareness month & while I'm glad to know where my 'quirks' come from, I'm having difficulty adopting summertime best practices (sunshine intensifies !!)

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

herding (as in cat herding/coordinating a meeting) stampede high noon This inbox ain't big enough for the both of us.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I once indexed a podcast host I'd listened to for a few years and based on the book's topic it was unexpected. "What's he doing in here?" I love those little moments of what seem to be outliers in the index.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Okay if I substitute decaf coffee for wine? Index due in in a few hours. Wine is not a good idea for detailed work.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

New week, new book, new index. Leaving Lebanon and its Syrian refugee farmworkers and heading north for a look at unemployment in Norway. #BookIndexing #LoveMyJob #AcademicSky

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

It was an oversight by the author and the editor missed it. It is also Arabic and so transliterations of names are all over the place. It was one part translated title and one part uncommon transliteration.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I've just come across a translated titled in the book I'm indexing! Query into the author especially as this is a wonderfully edited book so it might be intentional. It's the only error or questionable bit I've come across in this book, which is rare!

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Is that a mortar and pestle (aka today's bottle of analgesics for headaches) on the shelf bottom right?

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A work colleague's computer would send out a toilet flushing sound as she logged off

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

New funding for early-career scholars in History and Area Studies publishing their first book #AcademicSky #skytorians 🗃️

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Hopefully the warm and sunny weather in Vancouver will translate to a chinook soon!

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Society of Indexers @indexers.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A variation on a theme: author disappointed by the lack of an index #IndexSky

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Be careful! Taxes might be someone's joy. Think of how many people think indexing is hideous and yet we hang out our shingle wanting people to ask us to make an index for them! #BookIndexer #LoveMyJob

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Indexers use the title given in the book and then sort the index entries based on the alphabet. I would never expect to see École des Beaux-Arts under S for School...! People want the version of the actual book that was consulted, because not all books have the same pagination among other things.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Starting off the week with a new book. Early March was linguistic anthropology and Malaysia, today its economic anthropology and the Middle East. #AmIndexing #AcademicSky

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I think it's simultaneously this and the fact that many enthusiasts seem to have a narrow sense of what job tasks are/can look like. There's a lot of "you don't understand what AI can do" coming at some of us and a legitimate response is "you don't understand what I can do, and need to, in my job."

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Ask about production process in detail. Many large publishers rely on third party vendors for production who are implementing many cost saving (to them) measures. Those short cuts affect the result, which may show up in your book and can't be fixed unless there is a second printing.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Having an index makes it easier to find something you read in the book a while ago. having an index makes it easier for people to use your book for education purposes, be that teaching or their research/writing

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I'd love to index it if you on't have an indexer.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I was burnt out from non-profit management. I liked words, problem solving, project based work and needed the flexibility of working for myself. I was considering editing, saw indexing was part of the training. Remembered a librarian who told that people specialize in indexing. Sold!

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

If you do this again, I'd suggest looking in the index as a way to find related ideas and the bibliography as a means to find other related books. So many indoctrinated in the digital think the index is "just like the find/search function" but it's much more than that.

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42. Post the second sentence. "Authors must be prepared to review the index quickly, usually within a day or two of its receipt."

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

No new pictures - where are you mentally?

b/w photo of elephant on large custom waterskis about to be pulled by a boat

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Great thread on wine pairings for 🎥 🐟🍿🍫 and trivia about all of that and more

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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Can't it be my current novel, where I've inherited wealth and I pay someone to run the household?

Question: You are now forced to have the same job as the main character in the last book you read. What is the job?

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Panera lemonade @gateshawk.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Index in the Joy of Cooking

children

burns, 1071
Christmas cookies and cookie ornaments, 762
churn freezing, ice cream, 828
coloring Easter eggs, 207
dinner for family and friends, 24
Egg safety, 980

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

There’s an excellent and devastatingly thorough article in the latest @indexers.bsky.social journal by Elizabeth Bartmess and Michele Combs demonstrating that LLMs are worthless for indexing

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