[qariwa55]

I love using the GetBooks feature, but I have long had frustrations with it. Perhaps the answer to my query below is obvious, but I have not been able to figure it out myself.

When I type items in the search engine, I mean what I say. First, if I type "Bruce Mazlish" as the author, I want Bruce Mazlish. I do not mean every Bruce who is an author. I try putting the name in quotes ("Bruce Mazlish") but this does not make any difference. The search engine does not seem to support Boolean principles at least as a default.

Second, if I enter both author and title info, I want search output that meets ALL of my search conditions. But GetBooks does not seem to work that way either.

Invariably, the result is that I get in the output lots of items I did not think I was searching for.

Am I missing some setting? Can I get GetBooks to support Boolean searches?

Does anyone else find the default behavior of GetBooks annoying?

Thanks,
Daniel Wolk