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Originally Posted by Sirtel
No, it doesn't. I don't have 50,000 books, but I do have well over 20,000. The searching is still practically instant. Of course I have limited the searched metadata in Preferences, because for quick searches I generally search only for a title, author or series. For other categories I have to enter the category name in the search terms, but it still works very well.
Perhaps you should also limit the searched metadata to only those categories you use often.
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I have a library of 184,355 public domain articles.
The only column I exclude from search is my #blurb/Blurb custom column, an equivalent of comments/Comments. The difference being that custom long text columns can be edited in the book list via F2, whereas Comments must be edited via the Metadata Edit popup dialogue.
If I want all the articles by a particular author I'm usually looking at one of them, so I just press Alt+A and all the articles by that author are displayed more or less instantly - including those for which he/she is not the primary author.
Searches by tag values, publisher names etc are similarly more or less instant.
I use Windows Search and the Drop Search Results plugin for content searches.
BR