Shardlet he/him Posted June 1, 2013 Report Share Posted June 1, 2013 Hi everyone. I have found that as I hit on something that I want to search out in WoK, it takes me forever to find out where in the book is the best place to look for things and I end up doing a crazy amount of page thumbing. I also noticed that the Table of Contents in the book is rather unsatisfactory for this purpose (overly general). I am prematurely wearing out my book. So I decided that I was going to prepare a more comprehensive and informative index document. Here is what I have planned and made sufficient notes on so far: It will have all the chapters accompanied by their starting page, chapter name, arch faces, and a brief statement or statements identifying key subject matter of the chapter. I am currently planning on grouping the chapters according to the prime POV character (i.e., Kaladin chapters, Shallan Chapters, etc.) as well as separate groupings for Kaladin's flashback chapters and Dalinar's Storm Vision chapters. I am also considering doing an additional overall grouping of all the chapters in order. So far, my raw notes have made searching out at least one topic vastly more efficient. So, on to the purpose of this post. Since I have spent a substantial amount of time on this so far, and plan to invest a substantial amount of additional time preparing the document, I plan to post it on the site for everyone to use if they would like and I would like to make it as useful as reasonably possible. What I would like to know is if there is any additional features you would like to see in such a document and also what format would you like to have the document (Excel, Word, PDF, Google Doc). I may not be able to accomodate everyone's suggestions (otherwise this could get pretty unwieldy real quick). But, I bet there are some simple good ideas out there that you guys may hit on that I am overlooking. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter he/him Posted June 1, 2013 Report Share Posted June 1, 2013 There are a couple coppermind articles you might find useful for this. The Chapter Summaries The Chapter Headings The Chapter Epigraphs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardlet he/him Posted June 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2013 The data is nice, but I wanted to have something a little more convenient for my own use at least. But these pages make me think I can streamline my plans somewhat. I had thought about compilation of the epigraphs, but that is clearly redundant. I will also drop the in-order chapter listing as well as the archface info. These also seem to be somewhat redundant. Thanks WW. I think I will continue with the chapters and subject listing grouped by main POV character as well as the listing of flashback and Storm-vision chapters. Any more suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meg Posted June 1, 2013 Report Share Posted June 1, 2013 There is a Coppermind article about Dalinar's visions also. But perhaps you found this page already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter he/him Posted June 2, 2013 Report Share Posted June 2, 2013 There is a Coppermind article about Dalinar's visions also. But perhaps you found this page already. I think Meg meant this page, Dalinar's visions (the one she posted went to the Dalinar article instead) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardlet he/him Posted June 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2013 I think, at least for my purposes, that it would be more convenient and effective to have it in the format I am planning. But thank you for the suggestion Meg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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