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Originally Posted by MelBr
My biggest gripe with calibre is search. If you're used to Google, Bing or Spotlight search results, calibre's search feels like you're stuck in early 2000s.
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MelBr I have some empathy with you, I psych my way around the frustration by regarding calibre's 'Search' as 'Query'.
But I'm sort of puzzled as why you'd include punctuation in the search string as in "author - title" or "Title: Subtitle". Unless of course you pick up the string from the clipboard/paste buffer that was loaded by PuTTy or something similar, as happens to me via Autocopy in browsers and Click.To in Windows - fortunately I found a widget that scrapes 'noise' from clipboard entries.
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Originally Posted by MelBr
All of these issues are becoming more pronounced as Calibre is moving towards being more monolithic so using other tools is becoming problematic.
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Care to elaborate - I've only been using calibre for a couple of years, but I can't say I've noticed any
significant deterioration (or improvement) in this regard.
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Originally Posted by MelBr
Before, you could just do a grep/find or Spotlight search on calibre folder and find the title/author easily but now with super-short filenames, that becomes impossible for books with longer titles.
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You seem to be suggesting there's been a change in calibre's 'restrictions' regarding folder & file naming that results in truncation and transliteration. Is that really the case or are your book titles becoming longer.
To avoid folder & file name truncation I usually leave straplines and such out of the book Titles. I put them in a
Text, column shown in the tag browser' custom column called Strapline, that I include in 'Columns to search' but hide in the Tag browser
If you use a long title that results in truncated file names then Spotlight should find the full title in the opf file. The problem then is how to get those results into Calibre. Have a look at the Recoll (Spotlight for Linux) plugin, maybe you could use it as the basis to create a Spotlight plugin.
EDIT : Full text search is apparently on Kovid's list of things to do, don't know where it sits priority wise.
BR