[PatNY]

Originally Posted by MelBr

Here's an example. Say you're searching for "author - title". See that hyphen? Well, unless your book has a hyphen in it, Calibre won't find it. It also won't find it if you put a colon and colon doesn't appear in the title. Something like "Title: Subtitle". Today I was searching for a book and couldn’t find it because I used a hyphen. I found it through Spotlight instead.

Just curious. Why would you even use punctuation in your search? If you simply use one or two key words from the title, then Calibre will find the book easily. For example, if the book is "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" and I put in ocean end in the search field, the book will be found instantly. There is never the need to put in colons or hyphens AFAIK.

Another issue is stemming. Calibre still can't can't return search result for "network" if you type in "networks". http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9...in-python-list

Calibre will find matches for partial words so you never need to put in plurals and are better off being briefer if you're not sure of the exact word in the title.

For example, with the book above, if I put in just ocea la in the search field, Calibre will find it easily.

One thing you might want to do, if you haven't done so already, is go into preferences and limit the metadata search to author and title. It makes the results much more accurate, and I did have some problems with Calibre searches before I selected that option.

--Pat