As you may or may not know, I am a big reader. I read many books each year mostly in the fantasy genre. I recently finished Book 11 of the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I think that each of the books in the series is between 700 and 900 pages. When you consider that there is a year or two between each book release, it can be quite a long time from the time that you start the series to the time you finish it. As I was reading book 11 Knife of Dreams a character became center stage that had been introduced a couple of books back. I can’t remember his name, but he is the Deathwatch Guard. The problem was that when I was reading I couldn’t remember anything about him until near the end of the book. It would have been a far more interesting read if I could have gone back and read the earlier sequences with him when he first popped up in the book.
This is where I come to the point of this post. There should be an index for this kind of thing. Why can’t I see a character and go look him up and get the page and book numbers where I can go back and read the previous interactions. Maybe it is up to people like me to get it started.
What do you think?
First, I think you should post more than twice a year. Second, I don’t think that there are enough people who read like you to make it advantageous for the author or publisher to make such an index. Maybe you could start an Index movement among your nerd book friends and make a difference. I believe in you.
Aaahhh! That was the point. Why don’t a bunch of readers like me add to the database each time that we make a connection. It would be kind of like the way that CD’s and their songs lists got compiled.