Thread: Troubleshooting Can't search my book!
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Old 01-29-2011, 09:17 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy View Post
If the books were not indexed, searching could take minutes to complete. With indexing, it already knows what words are where, and in what books.
I'm guessing if you were searching across your whole collection and it's quite large such a search could take minutes.

I would have thought the strongest use case for searching is within 1 volume though and I doubt a proprietary search through a compressed/binary mobi format would take minutes regardless of the size of the book. If Kindle accepted more than mobi format the case would be different - but this should be one of the advantages of limiting format.

That aside though as there is at least a marginal speed advantage in searches that have an index, if the indexing is introduced in such a way that you can get scenarios of endless indexing, then it's possibly not robust enough.

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