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DNSB · 08-21-2023, 01:21 AM

A few images to help out.

I'm going to assume that you started the content server, connected to it, selected a library if you have more than one and then clicked on the magnify glass icon which is pretty much the standard search icon. You would then enter the search query pretty much the same as you would in the calibre GUI. See the link posted by Kovid Goyal for the full syntax.

For instance, say I want to search for books with Eric Flint as an author, the search query would be 'author:"Eric Flint"', to search for books with Eric as the author and that do not have 163 in the title, the search query would be 'author:"Eric Flint" and not title:"163"'

Leave off the single quotes.

If you really feel enthused, you can use the FTS (Full Text Search) to search for words inside books. This needs some caution since you can literally get thousands of results with a poor choice of search string.

08-21-2023, 01:21 AM	#5
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 46,694 Karma: 169712392 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	A few images to help out. I'm going to assume that you started the content server, connected to it, selected a library if you have more than one and then clicked on the magnify glass icon which is pretty much the standard search icon. You would then enter the search query pretty much the same as you would in the calibre GUI. See the link posted by Kovid Goyal for the full syntax. For instance, say I want to search for books with Eric Flint as an author, the search query would be 'author:"Eric Flint"', to search for books with Eric as the author and that do not have 163 in the title, the search query would be 'author:"Eric Flint" and not title:"163"' Leave off the single quotes. If you really feel enthused, you can use the FTS (Full Text Search) to search for words inside books. This needs some caution since you can literally get thousands of results with a poor choice of search string. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by DNSB; 08-21-2023 at 01:27 AM.