Isabel and I have indexed 10 of our 16 chapters as of 8:15 this evening. Each one takes about 2 hours and from 150 to 200 index cards. One minute we are arguing over how to list something, and the next we are laughing at what someone said during one of our interviews. Three chapters in one day is our best production to date.
We are more than half way through one of the three jobs we have to do before September 30. After recording all the words we want to index and the pages on which they occur (job 1), we have to construct a single alphabetized list (job 2). Indexing completed, we then have to proof read the whole thing again (job 3). That means reading aloud and calling out every capitalization, every punctuation mark, every diacritical mark. We are not looking forward to that last bit.
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