But a compilation of half-truths and accusations is not the right way to signal such a change.
And for the first time the reader wonders, amidst all this secrecy, how we came to be reading this "book of fragments, a compilation of sorrows and half-remembered dreams".
Issued under the authorship of one George J Merritt, its first half was a compilation of Hanson speeches and press releases through 1996.
A compilation of President Barack Obama's speeches has done even better, selling half a million copies since November, solidifying his role as Japan's English teacher.
The CPINu's August inflation figure of 1.3% is less than half the 2.65% of the CPI Congreso, a compilation of private estimates gathered by opposition members of Congress.
Things half-hidden are the subject of Sam Ekwurtzel's pair of video loops, a compilation of close-ups of photographs of television sets for sale on eBay.
They preside over almost half of those schools with the nation's worst student loan default rates, HuffPost found through a compilation of federal data.
A compilation of summer-reading lists.
A compilation of teeny tiny memoirs.
Here's a compilation of those stories.
A compilation of the songs of Les Paul and Mary Ford.
