The Voice Ledger · Increment two

Per-Volume Inventory

The triage bin sorts the corpus into piles. This page works one volume at a time and records four facts about each: which register it belongs to, whether attributed turns are set inside it, whether the front-matter note is written, and what the reading still needs.

A volume is resolved when the register is decided and the note is in the manuscript. Marking is required only where a real exchange underlies the prose. Unsorted is an honest state, not a failure — it says the text has not been read for speaker status yet.

Volumes
26
Register decided
6
Turns to mark
5
Notes outstanding
20

6 of 26 volumes sorted · 23%

Register decided

Seven volumes, each decided for a stated reason rather than by lean. Three opened the form on purpose, one refused delegation outright, and three carry the boundary case where the exchange is part of the evidence.

Awaiting a reading

The unlabelled middle, itemised. Most of these will resolve downward to human-owned under the strict definition; saying so per volume is stronger than leaving nineteen books in a single bin. The lean shown is a first reading, not a finding.

How a volume gets resolved

  1. Read the volume against whatever record of the exchange survives, chapter by chapter, asking only whether invited prose was permitted to stand as voice.
  2. Decide the register at the level the volume actually decides it — whole book where the rule held throughout, passages where the line moves inside a chapter.
  3. Set attributed turns under the convention wherever a turn is reproduced as evidence rather than absorbed into the argument.
  4. Paste the matching front-matter note, and change the row here to written.