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Old 12-08-2020, 04:54 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by mst View Post
For a useful search function, a database with the book title, description, author would already be enough. No need to keep that up to date all the time, only when a file is replaced. Some kind of "speed up book information database" function could help delete orphaned metadata, for instance, to remove the metadata of those files that no longer exist on the device.
All of that functionality already exists. In the file browser there's Display modeBook info cache management. Also in the file browser, in the plus menu there's Extract and cache book information.

What doesn't exist yet is a GUI to facilitate queries like in the attached screenshot.
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