An independent index of printed matter
Filed weekly · Read in any order
Index Press
The index
Every story, newest first, numbered as it was filed.
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A paper wedged in the door
The shop is still shut, but the day’s paper has already arrived, rolled tight and pushed through the handle.
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Bundles at dawn
A short account of the hour between the press stopping and the first reader opening a page.
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Everything for a pound
A stall where every book costs the same is a stall that has given up arguing about value.
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Corrections in red
The last reader before print is the one whose marks nobody else will ever see.
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The window that is a shop
Some bookshops are rooms. This one is a window with a counter behind it.
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Dressed in yesterday’s news
A street performer made a suit out of newsprint and sat down to read the paper it came from.
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Keeping the Saturday edition
Why some households keep one day’s paper a week and throw the rest away.
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Marks a reader leaves
Folded corners, ticks and underlines are the proofs readers make without meaning to.
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Galley, then page
How a story moves from a long strip of text to a page with a number on it.
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Only the spines face out
On a crowded shelf a book has one narrow chance to be chosen: its spine.