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chaley · 04-05-2022, 03:33 PM

If I understand you correctly you are talking about searching for a book with the title "Not What I Wanted" by typing those words in the search box. As in

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The behavior you describe is expected and correct. Similar things will happen if *any* word in the string is NOT, AND, or OR. That sequence of words above means

Code:

NOT
     What
AND
     I
AND
    Wanted

Said another way, it is "(not What) and (I and Wanted)".

If you typed in "Live or Let Die" (without the quotes) what you typed is interpreted as

Code:

    Live
OR
(
        Let
    AND
        Die
)

There is no other way to interpret bare keywords other than as keywords as long as calibre supports AND, OR, and NOT operators.

04-05-2022, 03:33 PM	#3
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,475 Karma: 8025702 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	If I understand you correctly you are talking about searching for a book with the title "Not What I Wanted" by typing those words in the search box. As in The behavior you describe is expected and correct. Similar things will happen if any word in the string is NOT, AND, or OR. That sequence of words above means Code: NOT What AND I AND Wanted Said another way, it is "(not What) and (I and Wanted)". If you typed in "Live or Let Die" (without the quotes) what you typed is interpreted as Code: Live OR ( Let AND Die ) There is no other way to interpret bare keywords other than as keywords as long as calibre supports AND, OR, and NOT operators.