Hi,

One complaint I have heard in reviews is that keeping track of all the characters gets difficult. Particularly as they can pop in at any time.

First: Try reading "A Song of Ice and Fire" you want to talk about a cast of characters that no one can keep track of? When a new one appears on GoT, I'm like OK, who was this again? Which book? What did they do? Will they do?

But anyway...There is a Who's Who on the website. Doesn't get a lot of visits, but then it doesn't have long biography entries at this point.

Would it be useful to have this in an Appendix in the book?

First a note on new Appendices.

In the 2nd Edition, only the shortest/most critical appendices stay in line. The rest move to the end and have links between chapters where they used to be, and return links at the end of each appendix to take you back to where you left.

In Book II, all appendices are at the end, and the links to them are wherever appropriate in the book, either inline with the story or between sections or chapters.

So for example when someone views the Crystal Balling, there is a link to the transcript of the Crystal Ball recording of the battle right there in line. (At least the first time, otherwise the return links get confusing)

Also keep in mind, the more appendices, the less story. We are limited to about 240,000-250,000 words in the Dead Tree Edition.

smw has a point. I am pretty sure one can use x-ray for short character descriptions. For a kindle ereader a return link is not necessary, cause one can use the go back arrow (whatever it is called).I guess there is a similar function in their non kindle programs. (The question is how many ppl do know that.)