BetterRed - Thanks for your suggestion.
Amazing! I just discovered yesterday through a non-MRead forum that you can search within PDFs using Windows Search. Took me a while to get it set up as I had to investigate why it wasn't working, then to find out how to download the only free Ifilter that I could find (Adobe). Works well on files in a Library or located on the C:drive. Can't seem to get it to work for files on a USB drive/stick. (Will worry with that later.)
What works better than that, for me, for searching within the magazine PDF files is also something I didn't know about till yesterday. And, with a program I've been using for a while now.
PDF-Xchange Viewer has this capability built-in to its Advanced Search and it will show the actual page reference where it finds the search string. Click on the result reference and it shows that page within the magazine with the string highlighted in the viewing window.
So, that seems to be the way to go for content searching.
I still am wanting to develop a workflow for managing the "found" articles or items. Been looking at Zotero, just a bit, because of another recommendation, but isn't coming across as user-attractive as calibre.
Did a google on windows search and csv files; appears I would need an addon utility to create a CSV of the search results. Correct?
So, I would save the csv list with a name representing the query criteria and then save that as a Reading List to use in the RL plugin?
I have zero time with the RL plugin; just installed it.
I don't use Linux, so Recoll won't be an option.
Thank you,
Delain
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