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kiwidude · 10-12-2022, 05:06 PM

I have also adjusted the author tokens to ignore any single characters (i.e. initials).

So now the results for a Similar search are:

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So the only case that isn't being caught by Similar is Frederic/Frederik. Which is what I would expect - that is precisely what a Soundex search is targeting. A "Similar" search is about removing punctuation, author name ordering (and now initials).

10-12-2022, 05:06 PM	#988
kiwidude Calibre Plugins Developer Posts: 4,733 Karma: 2197770 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Oasis	I have also adjusted the author tokens to ignore any single characters (i.e. initials). So now the results for a Similar search are: So the only case that isn't being caught by Similar is Frederic/Frederik. Which is what I would expect - that is precisely what a Soundex search is targeting. A "Similar" search is about removing punctuation, author name ordering (and now initials).