Cover note

The cover shows "The Ghost in the Stereoscope" (kindly suggested by Sir David Brewster), an albumen print stereoscopic photograph made from a wet collodion negative for the London Stereoscopic Company circa 1858. The photographer was probably William England. (Photo credit: THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY)

In this issue: the fight against information overload is never ending. The ELPS (electronic long, paper short) system of publishing the full article on bmj.com and shortened versions in the BMJ is one way of making articles snappier and more readable. Fred Kavalier, one of the ELPS editors who ruthlessly squeezes quart sized articles into pint sized BMJ pages, has taken the process to its logical conclusion by shrinking some of the articles in this issue down to the size of a haiku poem: three lines with a total of 17 syllables (5, 7, 5).

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