Culture | Keys to all knowledge
How the index changed reading, for better and worse
What is Google, asks a new book, but a giant electronic index?
Index, A History of the. By Dennis Duncan. Allen Lane; 352 pages; £20. To be published in America by W.W. Norton in February; $30
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