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bittrette - whenever you feel a book has had Indexing Now status for too long, email us and we will contact the member indexing it and see if they plan to finish it. Though I checked this book and it seems to be stuck. It's likely it was once assigned to a member then got taken back and somehow the index status did not change. I will get our developer to unstick it and then you can request to index it yourself.

It is always worth members emailing us with this query. In this case it alerted us to a stuck book. Or it may prompt a member to restart indexing a book they had forgotten about.

Cati - it is on his to-do list but he has had a couple of very large projects he has been doing for us. 

The same is true with "Better Homes and Gardens Heritage Cook Book" which has been "indexing now" for over a year, as well as (I believe)

"Craig Claiborne's Favorites from the New York Times."  Both have been indexing now for quite some time.  Are these going to be finished?

Is there a way to tell when a book indexing was started?

DonnaMarieNJ -- Thanks for asking about those two titles. Both have now been released from "Indexing Now" status. The BH&G Heritage Cookbook had only a dozen or so recipes indexed (of 700 total!), and the Craig Claiborne hadn't been started.

Hi, FJT -- I looked into the status of New Irish Cookery, and indeed the member-indexer had stalled after indexing a dozen or so recipes. I've unassigned it so this book is now available to be requested by another member. (However, as sometimes happens, the edition that had been linked to the "master" for indexing is still showing as Indexing Now. I'll ask our tech staff to fix it.)

Your submission from early November has just now come almost to the top of the Member Indexing Review queue, which we tackle in chronological order. Our pro indexing of new books is not related to the member indexing backlog; it's purely a question of member indexing being vastly more popular than we could have imagined! You should be receiving some feedback soon from Sydney, our Member Indexing reviewer.

Feel free to email me directly -- [email protected] -- if you'd like to check on any other Indexing Now titles.

Thanks Deborah for your quick response (why are you working on a Sunday?!!).  I'll wait until Sydney has had a chance to review the book I indexed in November and the one I submitted this week and then I'll submit a request to index New irish Cookery too.  I want to make sure that I've taken on board anything that Sydney has to say about the ones I've just indexed before I tackle another one and I'm glad to hear that there is a queue of member-indexed books to review - it means more of us are getting involved!