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Originally Posted by rhadin
I tried the advance search and faired no better. What they really need is to let you select search parameters such as exact/loose match, exclude/include descriptions, title only, etc. They say they have more than 100,000 titles; with that number of ebooks, the search engine has to be more flexible so that one can narrow the parameters.
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The author search seems okay. The advanced search with David Weber in the author field, and came up with no matches (missing the one book they have by David J. Weber). Entering Weber, David picked up that book. I then tried the advanced search with Elizabeth Moon in the author field and came with 7 matches all by her. (No quotes either time, BTW).
But I agree that the advanced keyword search leaves a lot to be desired. Entering "David Weber" in quotes came up with the result you described earlier of anything with either David or Weber in the metadata. However putting it in quotes in the quick search, yielded the two books that mention David Weber in the description (pretty bad when the advanced search is better than the "dumb search").
I also agree that it would be nice to be able to specify the metadata field you are searching and be able to do exact (with quotes) matches
I'll also add these to Digital Editions feature list, so when I finally get to do search (instead of just find in a book) people will have less cause to complain as well
