MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Calibre's search is pretty lacking and has issues

BetterRed · 09-28-2013, 08:03 PM

@MelBR - you can read about the folks working on the apostrophe problem here

If you strip out the apostrophes ( ’ ) and quotes ( ' ) when they're used to indicate possession then you should probably remove any following ess ( s ). That leaves one with the problem of what to do about them when they’re used within a contraction. Then there's chaley's point of having to deal with 100's [but you wouldn't remove that ( s )] of languages on several operating systems in different versions and guises.

If you're the NSA there's no such thing as a black hole

@chaley - as you surmised I was thinking of the metadata database. If none of its columns contains the value I'm looking for then no amount of 'smarts' within calibre's search facility will find it. Or if a column erroneously contains what I'm looking for, then search will unfortunately find it. In both cases I end up with the wrong result.

But that said, I don't have any complaints about calibre's search. My expectations of it are limited, I mainly use it for administrative searches, eg 'find' books that don't have an RTF or a DOCX or a PDF. Otherwise I use one of several external full text search tools, sometimes from there I'll create a CSV to read into Import List to create a Reading List.

BR

09-28-2013, 08:03 PM	#19
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,825 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@MelBR - you can read about the folks working on the apostrophe problem here If you strip out the apostrophes ( ’ ) and quotes ( ' ) when they're used to indicate possession then you should probably remove any following ess ( s ). That leaves one with the problem of what to do about them when they’re used within a contraction. Then there's chaley's point of having to deal with 100's [but you wouldn't remove that ( s )] of languages on several operating systems in different versions and guises. If you're the NSA there's no such thing as a black hole @chaley - as you surmised I was thinking of the metadata database. If none of its columns contains the value I'm looking for then no amount of 'smarts' within calibre's search facility will find it. Or if a column erroneously contains what I'm looking for, then search will unfortunately find it. In both cases I end up with the wrong result. But that said, I don't have any complaints about calibre's search. My expectations of it are limited, I mainly use it for administrative searches, eg 'find' books that don't have an RTF or a DOCX or a PDF. Otherwise I use one of several external full text search tools, sometimes from there I'll create a CSV to read into Import List to create a Reading List. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 09-28-2013 at 11:05 PM.