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Old 07-03-2025, 02:50 PM   #1
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Is there a way to confine a search to one word? For example, I have more than 20 editions of Bram Stoker's Dracula (make of that what you will), but searching Author: Bram Stoker and Title: Dracula also brings up Dracula's Guest, and any other book title that contains the word Dracula. Any ideas will be tried!
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Is there a way to confine a search to one word? For example, I have more than 20 editions of Bram Stoker's Dracula (make of that what you will), but searching Author: Bram Stoker and Title: Dracula also brings up Dracula's Guest, and any other book title that contains the word Dracula. Any ideas will be tried!
Look at the section on searching
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/gui.html#search-sort
for exact match
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I tried several of the things mentioned in the section on searching - none of them worked. Your link does a fine job of taking me directly to the section on searching, but searching in the manual search box doesn't work nor does searching the page via Ctrl-F.
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I suspect you missed a symbol placement"

Code:
title:"=ghost"
Only finds ghost.
Where
Code:
title:"ghost"
finds every variation with ghost

(I used ghost as I only have dracula containing titles in my library)
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