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<blockquote data-quote="Magnetoman" data-source="post: 171250" data-attributes="member: 2806"><p>Half of information is knowing where to find it. Knowing the information I need is <em>somewhere </em>in one of the bookcases full of magazines isn't knowing where to find it. An index is. My 'The Gold Star Buyer's Companion' lists approximately 200 articles on Gold Stars from 16 magazines from 1951 through December 2022. Try creating such a list without a computerized index.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://amzn.to/3muPzbQ[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Some years ago I was in a train station in Moscow, to catch a train to Rybinsk (it's a long story…). Knowing that the information I needed on track and car was in front of me was useless. I needed an (English-language) index.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]59056[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Moscow has nine train stations, and it's not like English is the lingua Franca of Russians, so I don't remember how I even got to the right station, let alone on the right train. Or in the right car, rather than in a section that might have later separated and been taken to Vladivostock.</p><p></p><p>Back to magazines. Two major U.S. magazines were indexed by a service my university subscribed to, so that was a major help in getting my indexes started sometime in the 1990s. Also, in the early days of the internet someone posted an index of Classic Bike and The Classic Motor Cycle articles up to that time, which also was a big help. However, to quote the owner of a used bookstore when I asked if he had anything on motorcycles, "Motorcyclists don't read." To the extent his generalization is true, there would be very few people who combine the interest and ability to create indexes for motorcycle magazines, significantly decreasing the odds of finding an existing list, let alone one that's on-line.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magnetoman, post: 171250, member: 2806"] Half of information is knowing where to find it. Knowing the information I need is [I]somewhere [/I]in one of the bookcases full of magazines isn't knowing where to find it. An index is. My 'The Gold Star Buyer's Companion' lists approximately 200 articles on Gold Stars from 16 magazines from 1951 through December 2022. Try creating such a list without a computerized index. [URL unfurl="true"]https://amzn.to/3muPzbQ[/URL] Some years ago I was in a train station in Moscow, to catch a train to Rybinsk (it's a long story…). Knowing that the information I needed on track and car was in front of me was useless. I needed an (English-language) index. [ATTACH type="full"]59056[/ATTACH] Moscow has nine train stations, and it's not like English is the lingua Franca of Russians, so I don't remember how I even got to the right station, let alone on the right train. Or in the right car, rather than in a section that might have later separated and been taken to Vladivostock. Back to magazines. Two major U.S. magazines were indexed by a service my university subscribed to, so that was a major help in getting my indexes started sometime in the 1990s. Also, in the early days of the internet someone posted an index of Classic Bike and The Classic Motor Cycle articles up to that time, which also was a big help. However, to quote the owner of a used bookstore when I asked if he had anything on motorcycles, "Motorcyclists don't read." To the extent his generalization is true, there would be very few people who combine the interest and ability to create indexes for motorcycle magazines, significantly decreasing the odds of finding an existing list, let alone one that's on-line. [/QUOTE]
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