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Originally Posted by MelBr
And yet if you leave it the way it is now, you can't even search for the exact string inside of Calibre. Even if you copy paste a string containing some chars, Calibre will return nothing.
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That's more or less why I limit my use of calibre to do administrative searches, and use external tools to do informational searches.
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Originally Posted by MelBr
That might be fine for fiction or small libraries but it's unrealistic for non-fiction and large libraries. Not to mention that it's not user-friendly.
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I suggest calibre's primary target audience is people who read books from cover to cover - most of which is fiction and biographies. IMO if you use calibre on an ebook reference library you have to recognise the limitations that brings with it, one of which is limited informational searching.
And its not entirely useless in that regard. If I want to find a article that I think Stiglitz wrote on the IMF blog, then I type 'stiglitz' in the calibre search bar, sort on Publisher and look at the Titles**. But if I want to find what I have by Stiglitz where he's had something to say about CoCo Bonds then I will use Windows Search or Recoll.
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** if you're wondering why I wouldn't just go the IMF blog, well just because something was there yesterday doesn't mean it'll be there next week.