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Indexed | 
 enlarge | Author: Jessica Hagy
Publisher: Studio
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 6174
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.8 x 0.3
ISBN: 0142005207
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.602
EAN: 9780142005200
ASIN: 0142005207
Publication Date: February 28, 2008
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Amazon.com Review
A unique, hilarious take on the modern world
Jessica Hagy is a different kind of thinker. She has an astonishing talent for visualizing relationships, capturing in pictures what is difficult for most of us to express in words.
At indexed.blogspot.com, she posts charts, graphs, and Venn diagrams drawn on index cards that reveal in a simple and intuitive way the large and small truths of modern life.
Praised throughout the blogosphere as "brilliant," "incredibly creative," and "comic genius," Jessica turns her incisive, deadpan sense of humor on everything from office politics to relationships to religion.
With new material along with some of Jessica's greatest hits, this utterly unique book will thrill readers who demand humor that makes them both laugh and think. An Exclusive Indexed Card from Jessica Hagy 
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 Unique, Interesting...but Light on Content October 11, 2008
Jessica Hagy's book, "Indexed," offers some unique, interesting...and often entertaining...insights into the world at large through the mediums of simple charts. The relationships Hagy points out in this book are insightful and often surprising.
While this book provides interesting and thought-provoking reading, it is light on content. The pages are not numbered and it took me approximately ten minutes to read the entire book.
Despite the book's brevity, it is worth a read. The question that potential purchasers should ask..and answer...is if the book is worth the price. The author offers content through a website (http://indexed.blogspot.com/), but I am not sure of the overlap of the web site's content and the content of the book.
In the final analysis, Hagy offers interesting perspectives on many facets of life through a basic medium...her content is worth consuming. This book may not be the best (or most economical) way to peruse her content, though.
 funny and visual Book September 30, 2008
Maybe cute & cool. Jessica Hagy makes fun with her drawings. Lateral thinking, maybe a different perspective, sometimes genial and smart, sometimes not so good. The book maybe will not change your life, but it will you smile for a dozen of times.
 Over-Priced, Under-Whelming BUT Entirely Acceptable September 27, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a niche book for people with time, money, and curiosity about unconventional visualization simplified. Although it is overpriced (probably cost $1 to actually produce), there are no page numbers, and half the diagrams are quasi annoying (e.g ground chuck chart with cannibals on one axis and clumsy butchers on the other), there is just enough here to leave me okay with having paid for this to be sent to me.
A handful of the charts are clever and another handful are inspiring. That is what took this tiny little book from three to four stars.
The booklet is completely lacking in structure, another reason it almost dropped to a three. This was a fast print job with zero editorial brilliance. A brilliant editor would have divided the book into a matrix, sorted the sketches in relation to human, technical, global, local, whatever, and then presented them with a table of contents and pagination.
The author's website is provided on the back cover of the book (and I provide it in the comment), it may be that this was the sole intent of the book, to draw people there, in which case the book succeeds and with my comment below you don't have to buy it to achieve the book's purpose.
See these other books:
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics
Fun, but too short August 22, 2008
I've been following Jessica Hagy through her blog for over a year now and I was incredibly excited when her book came out. This is a collection of some of her published notecards as well as a few which were never published. This is definitely a collection of some of her best, that will make you laugh and make you think.
If there was anything that I wish, it would be that there are more note cards. The book is for too short with most cards that I'd already seen. I'd definitely recommend it for someone who hasn't read her postcards before, or is simply interested in have a few random ones around.
Cute, but .... August 4, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
With Indexed you get as advertised . . . short, nerdy and oddly attractive; but if you skip it you will not miss it.
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