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Originally Posted by dwanthny
If you type Life of Pi in the search area you are searching for any instance Life or of or Pi.
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But Walt, that's not what I am seeing. If I search on
life pi or
life of pi it will only result in books that have ALL of those letter strings (not just whole words) in any of the fields (with no restrictions set) or in just the author and title fields if it's restricted the way I now have Calibre set.
In other words, per the very first search I made as referenced in my original post, every resulting book had to have BOTH
life and
pi somewhere in the book's metadata. If could be the word "life" in the title, for example, and then the presence of the word "conspiracy" in the book's summary. If there was no
pi string anywhere in the metadata, then the presence of the word
life in the title alone would not be enough to cause the book to show up in the results.
This is very good, because if it was really an "OR" situation, that would have caused even more irrelevant books to show up. As it was, a lot of books showed up because "pi" is a common string in so many ordinary words (pizza, conspiracy, masterpiece etc).
BTW, in my actual search in calibre, I was using no quotes around the search terms. I just used them in my original post here to try to make the post easier to understand. I also didn't think it was a bug. But I did think the default search method (without any tweaks) was non-intuitive and non-standard compared to the common search engines you find on websites. I imagine it could confuse many who use Calibre for the first time and have hundreds of books in their library, particularly books with summaries filled in.