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Originally Posted by Manichean
Personally, I like the way the search bar works right now. As for your question, there's really no other way than specifying the search field in your query, although you should be aware that you don't have to use regular expressions. The search should also return all authors containing "Smith". |
True, if you don't want to limit to starts with then you don't need a regular expression. However you still have to do some careful text selection/replacement to ensure the quotes are present etc if you are checking a bunch of authors as I am doing.
My point is that (for me anyways) having to type so much is not conducive or intuitive for quick searches. Go to pretty much any book search website I have ever seen and they will give you the ability to have dedicated search boxes for title and author. Also with the results (assuming no "relevance" algorithm for simplicity) that if you search by title, I would want the titles to come back sorted by title. If I search by author, they come back sorted by that and so on. If you have a very small Calibre library, or not very rich metadata, then I can see the current search working well. However unless you type a very long specific string of text I don't believe it "scales" as well as it potentially could do from the noise aspect?