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Originally Posted by DaltonST
@GM:
It already exists: QuarantineAndScrub.
Dalton
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Dalton,
I think what you have done with ALL of your Calibre addon work is spectacular. That you have responded here with MCS to just about every request and made MCS more utilitarian with every step is beyond laudable.
That said, Q&S is a difficult interface to learn. I've made two attempts and a combination of own lack of understanding and time to study it being taken away from me by some health issues, has resulted in failure. My fault. I think in my 'own' ways and they are different stylistically from yours. I will have to make that effort anew.
BUT, here's one thing about my little effort to detect author names in the title. I knew there would be a few. The Best Of series were going to be in the final results.
Unfortunately, when I ran the search against an admittedly absurdly large dataset, the result that came back was roughly five percent of the original data. And NONE had the author name(s) in the title. Where I had expected maybe a half-percent in all, I got ten times that ... of wrong answers. I couldn't see ANY rhyme or reason for why the results matched the query.
I tried it a second time (Special Queries ... Title Contains Authors Name) while having about 50 books selected, including The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum. Naturally, the query doesn't go against selected books, but all of them. The query took a long time (no fault of yours, just too much data). And came back with the same roughly five percent and NO, The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum was not included. Missed the Halcyon eBook edition and the paperback version data listing (three copies).
So, I now realize that MCS has its uses, which expand weekly. It's up to me to face the fact. I need Q&S. I guess. When time permits.
Thanks again, GM