From the Book - First American edition.
Point of order: on alphabetical arrangement
The births of the index: preaching and teaching
Where would we be without it?: the miracle of the page number
The map or the territory: the index on trial
'Let no damned Tory index my history!': sparring in the back pages
Indexing fictions: naming was always a difficult art
'A keyto all knowledge': the universal index
Ludmilla and Lotaria: The book index in the age of search
Coda: archives of reading.
