> I spent 10 years indexing books as my major source of income, and
> believe me, while the work is tedious it's not self-evident. It takes
> time to learn how to do it well. You have to anticipate how people
> will look for things, figure out how to group similar concepts
> expressed in different words together, provide useful
> cross-referencing, etc. So...
Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" contains a character who claims to be able to tell all sorts of things about an indexer, up to and including whether or not s/he is gay.