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Originally Posted by intenex
It was an arbitrary decision on my part, I figured it would actually make it easier to read and more importantly search, as each item is distinguished from one another (can't confuse the book title with the author, for example). Any suggestions on an alternative?
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Well, I can understand how it would make it easier to do a title-specific or author-specific search, but I really don't think it makes the line easier to read by a human.
If I was doing this, I would omit the delimiters completely. Just let 'em search for any string. If they enter Mark Twain, it would find books by Mark Twain along with biographies with that name in the title.
But don't worry about it. It was only a very minor criticism, and it's quite likely that most people will be happy with it the way it is.