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Originally Posted by unboggling
Another option is to use the search facility of your Operating System (outside of calibre) to search file content of all files within one or more calibre Library folders, assuming all the Libraries are in one folder called, say "Calibre Libraries". The problem with this method is that "book formats" that are archives (multiple files packaged as one) such as EPUB, MOBI, ZIP, RAR get ignored.
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On OS/X with Spotlight, or on Linux with Recoll, EPUB and MOBI files can be content searched, as well as most other things
Windows can search CHM, DjVu, RAR, ZIP, CAB and other files if you install the IFilters available from MS, IFiltershop, Citeknet and IFilter.org, they're all free - some of the links at IFilter.Org are broken and some links are duplicates.
One simple and relatively inexpensive way of content indexing and searching ebooks on Windows is to create a TXT file, via Calibre Conversion. Windows will index the text files, and search will get you to the book folders by displaying a list of text files that meet your search criteria. Open file location will put you into the book folder and you can double click on the epub, mobi whatever -
be careful, and don't change anything.
If you're searching your ebooks in Windows I recommend you
don't do it from the Start menu, instead navigate to your library in Windows Explorer and search from there (top right corner). Searching from the Start menu can throw up too many 'What the heck is that' and "Where the hell is it then' results.
If you don't keep RAR or ZIP files in the book folders, then you could put the TXT in a ZIP or RAR, it should be quite a lot smaller, it will get indexed if the appropriate Ifilter is installed.
I never made Windows Desktop Search work satisfactorily on XP, Google and Copernic weren't any better. IMO the only one that was any good was the one from Yahoo, but they deprecated it - to the bit bucket
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