Thread: Calibre's search is pretty lacking and has issues
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Old 09-30-2013, 07:54 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
That's more or less why I limit my use of calibre to do administrative searches, and use external tools to do informational searches.


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.
And even the CoCo Bonds could probably be searchable, assuming you're extremely diligent about your metadata entry and policing your tags with each new addition. A quick skim or search on the text for keywords you deem important and you could use those to tag and search through Calibre.
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