Advice wanted: best paper to use in picture book

Question

We have a costume jewelry book with thousands of high quality images, most are carefully editied against a white background, on white paper.
We had originally thought to use a glossy paper. It was suggested to us that we use a matte paper with a spot varnish on the images. We were told that this would heighten the contrast between the matte paper and the varnished image, and would reduce fingerprints and glare off of the page.
We have also been told (by someone who was in the printing industry a decade ago) that the pictures will be less vibrant, and that gloss is the only way to go.
I need to talk to a printer or someone with more current experience. We want the most vibrant pictures possible, with the best user experience of the book. Do you have experience/opinions on this, or can you turn me to someone in the industry who I can have a 10 minute conversation with?
Thank you, Mark

Answer 1

Box around text
If you want it to flow, you could use an anchored object as was already suggested, but I'd say use a single table cell instead, it's much easier.
Tables
Unless you're using an ancient version of InDesign, there should be a whole "Table" menu right in between "Object" and "View."
Straight lines or Rules
There are paragraph rules for lines above & below paragraphs (you can find them in the paragraph style, or in a few other places, notably the options for the Paragraph panel), but I'd rather add underline to carefully positioned tab stops, just as we did back in the RageMaker era.
I don't bother to search the forums - the search tool seems to be permanently broken - but you can paste or place pretty much any image or graphical object created in ID into a text flow and it'll become the "inline" version of an anchored object.