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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
Searching pretty much requires that you have a specific thing you are looking for.
Browsing is similar to searching but with no specific object as your goal.
If I always know the next book I wish to read, then all I would need is a search tool.
Most of the time I have no particular book in mind and want to browse through defined listings of books, to see what might meet my needs and mood. Being able to browse through a listing of all the "Mystery" ebooks I have on hand, or all the "SciFi", or all the "Fantasy", or all the "PolyTicks", or all the "Comedy", or all the ebooks in any of over 50 catagories, is not something that you can replace with a search function.
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Hmmm... I generally search by author, series or book title. Since I have over 1400 books that would qualify as fantasy or science fiction, those would be little use for displaying content. The mystery section takes up another 200 books with about 40 books that are various oddments -- Travel? "In A Sunburned Country" has a series tag of travel -- Calibre really doesn't care what I used for series and they are searchable. Basically, I bulk metadata edited all the travel books into that series, ditto for comedy, horror and so on.
As the example I gave theonna, search for Eric Flint books is far faster and easier than finding all the books for which he was an author, co-author, editor or contributed a short story. Anthologies are fun in that I add the various authors as authors but use the editor as the modification on the author line. Esther Friesner and her Chicks series for instance -- if I want to find a story written by Roger Zelazny in that series, the search is pretty trivial. Yes, titles like "Chicks 'n Chained Males" or "The Chick Is In The Mail" may be politically incorrect but they're also something that tickles my sense of humour and most of the stories are pretty decent as well as humourous.
Regards,
David