Cataloging Hot Spots

When can hot spots be safely ignored?

If your catalog has 16 or fewer pages, hot spots will be less important to you, simply because all your pages are quite easy to find, even for your uncommitted readers.

But the reverse is also true—if your catalog is very long, the importance of your hot spots increases, because so many of your inner pages are so deeply “buried.” That’s why many big-book catalogers are including extra bind-ins these days—they’re creating additional hot spots to offset the ponderousness of their catalog.