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Originally Posted by PatNY
I notice that the default search in Calibre is to search anywhere in all the books' metadata instead of restricting the search to the main fields -- such as the "title" and "author" fields.
This results in dozens of books coming up when I went to search for "Life of Pi" in my library. I put in "life pi" in the search field and got the dozens of books. (Try it; you will get dozens of books too even if you don't have "Life of Pi" in your library.)
So I went to advanced search and put in "life pi" in the title field and nothing came up. I finally figured out that the advanced search will only give results on multiple words if they are in the exact sequence they appear in the title. In other words, it won't simply treat "life pi" as two separate keywords and give results. You can successfully search on "life of" or "of pi" or "life of pi" but "life pi" will give you zero results.
So it seems that the default search is overly broad. And the advanced search is too restrictive.
Is there any way to restrict the default search to the title and author fields?
Is it also possible to make the advanced search a little less restrictive in terms of the word sequencing for a title?
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