[kiwidude]

Cool, thx Kovid.

FYI I decided to override get_title_tokens as there were a few too many edge cases it created problems for with Goodreads search. The issue is the replacing of all those things with a space. Some examples Charlotte's Web becomes "charlotte+s+web", "1,000 places" becomes "1+000+places", "Catch-22" becomes "Catch 22" and so on. I also strip off stuff in parenthesis to get rid of things like "(Omnibus)" and "(2010)" in the title.

So at the moment my function has something like this:

title_patterns = [(re.compile(pat, re.IGNORECASE), repl) for pat, repl in
            [
                (r'(\(.*\))', ''),
                (r'\d+(,)\d+', ''),
                (r'(\s-)', ' '),
                (r'''[']''', ''),
                (r'''[:,;+!@#$%^&*(){}.`~"\s\[\]/]''', ' ')
            ]]
for pat, repl in title_patterns:
    title = pat.sub(repl, title)

It obviously isn't perfect but hopefully it does more good than harm