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Originally Posted by PatNY
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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. |
You are correct it is looking for any book entry that has Life and of and pi any place in the fields searched. But my bigger point is accurate if you enclose Life of Pi in quotes like "Life of Pi" it will look for the exact string.
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Originally Posted by PatNY
BTW, in my actual search in calibre, I was using no quotes around the search terms.
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Again that is my point, you have to learn to use quotes. The advanced search does use quotes and finds things exactly as anyone would expect. Searching for "life pi" does not return anything because the string does not exist in your library database. Same search rules go for searching via Google.
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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.
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I think the default search is as I would expect it to be in other search engines. The point of confusion, as kiwidude pointed out, is that searches automatically search the comments area too so there is quite a bit more data being searched then the obvious Title, Author, Series you would expect.