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Old 06-24-2025, 06:49 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Rellwood View Post
Someone was mentioning this in Reddit about updating to 8.5 and now not being able to search for authors without commas in their names (they like the LN, FN format) and single named authors.

Apparently they used to do a search "not author:,:" to identify these missing comma names along with single named authors.

Apparently this search no longer works for them.
This hasn't worked since calibre 5.42 when "normal" searching was changed to ignore punctuation.

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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
I was going to suggest using NOT author_sort:"^," which should search for entries without commas in the author_sort field or NOT author:"^ " which would search for author names without spaces.
These work because it used "character variant" searching (the ^ prefix). See 'Search Kinds' in the calibre manual The Search Interface.
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