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kovidgoyal · 11-02-2010, 11:45 AM

you dont actually need the quotes

author:smith

will work just fine. And to me, typing in a search box is far nicer than selecting fields from a dropdown. And the search syntax that the calibre search fields supports is very similar to that of google, which quite a few people seem to find intuitive.

If you are saying you want search results sorted by relevance, that be something worth doing, though what algorithm would decide the "relevance" of a match?

11-02-2010, 11:45 AM	#7
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,566 Karma: 28548962 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	you dont actually need the quotes author:smith will work just fine. And to me, typing in a search box is far nicer than selecting fields from a dropdown. And the search syntax that the calibre search fields supports is very similar to that of google, which quite a few people seem to find intuitive. If you are saying you want search results sorted by relevance, that be something worth doing, though what algorithm would decide the "relevance" of a match? Last edited by kovidgoyal; 11-02-2010 at 11:58 AM.