Removing the index is one of the silliest suggestions I've ever encountered. A book without an index is almost useless, unless of course you're blessed with a photographic memory. As far as putting in on a CD or on the web, that's fine as long as a _good_ index is also included in the book. I often read books on the subway, train, in a car, etc., where there is no possibility of access to a CD or the web. Many people I know have similar reading habits and consequently have no use for this sort of thing.
-----Original Message----- From: A.J.Millan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 6:54 AM To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Subject: Re: [sqlite] stupid man's manual to sqlite? >I will get back to you about the index. I also would like to invite >anyone else who has any specific things they would like to see changed >in the index to tell me. Assuming I can get a revised index out >electronically, I will make any such changes immediately to the file I >have on-hand. >-- Mike I have continued thinking of the index matter, and I consider that the possibility to take out it completely in the printed version, or leaving it summarized to a minimum, would have the additional advantage to be able to dedicate more pages to the truly useful things (in the past, I also published some thing, so I have some idea about the editorial world.) On the other hand, besides the mentioned possibility, to put on-line, or in a CD, the index, I believe that equally, an artifice could be included that allow "Google" any word or combination of them (in the case of a CD, the original content could be ciphered to avoid the piracy). As in Google, besides the page and line-number, the result it could include certain quantity of characters around all the matchs-points. For example, say 30 before and 30 later, to give an idea of the context. Beside the utility for the book owners, the potential buyers could check what can wait. It could be a good "hook " to attract possible clients. As I stated before, the same thing for the idea. Please, don't patent it (yes I have some paranoia about patents). Following the Hipp's blessing , and inside my much smaller possibilities, I would like that these ideas remains in the public domain. Greetings A. J. Millan ZATOR Systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
