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					Originally Posted by  kovidgoyal
					 
				 
				@BR: I dont see a good solution for  using VLs and not using restrict books. I dont want to have calibre cancel an applied vl. 
			
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 Understood and I agree… but how about having the software check the Restrict searched books if a VL or metadata search is active… if the user really wants to do a library wide text search whilst a metadata search is active they can uncheck it easy enough.
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					Originally Posted by  kovidgoyal
					 
				 
				As for not showing the snippets, I dont really see the point, it doesnt take much in the way of resources to search through text (the text is cached the format files are not re-opened). 
			
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 Four minutes to display the snippets for 250 books with nothing much else running seemed quite slow to me. It was using up to 25% of an i7-7700 with 16GB of RAM and a fair bit of HDD activity - that's why I thought it must be rattling through the format files.  The full-text-search.db file is 3.51GB.
BR