Open letter to the editors of Appleman's insurance treatise

Dear LexisNexis:

    I've found Holmes' Appleman on Insurance 2d to be a valuable research tool when working on a coverage issue. There is one little thing you might do to make this multi-volume treatise even more useful. In the Table of Contents, how about adding page numbers? I've seen this innovation in other books, and have found it most useful for locating the exact page that something is on, without having to leaf through the entire volume.

    While you're at it, you might consider adding page numbers to the index too. Today the index told me that I could find what I was looking for somewhere in § 129.2, but did not provide a pinpoint cite to a specific page. While that reference saved me the trouble of looking through all 20-something volumes of the treatise, I still had to leaf through all 202 pages that compose § 129.2 to find what I was looking for. (To save myself some time and trouble, I flipped forward to the table of contents, but alas!, no page numbers there either.)

    I trust that the lack of page numbers in the index and table of contents is a mere oversight, not a sinister ploy to steer researchers away from books to pay-by-the-minute computer research.