Searching is not working good

[Wipneus]

When i search for an author like Mel Wallis de Vries in my libary i get 4 books but 1 is a different book from Juultje van den Nieuwenhof and 3 books are from Mel Wallis de Vries.

There is always 1 book in the searched list that`s not from the author that i am searched for.

How to get only what i searched for?

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Wipneus

When i search for an author like Mel Wallis de Vries in my libary i get 4 books but 1 is a different book from Juultje van den Nieuwenhof and 3 books are from Mel Wallis de Vries.

There is always 1 book in the searched list that`s not from the author that i am searched for.

How to get only what i searched for?

@Wipneus - What do you have in the search term, to get author 'Mel Wallis de Vries' exactly and only, you need authors:(=Mel Wallis de Vries). If you just have Mel Wallis de Vries the search will look in all the metadata columns, including Comments.

Comments often have You May Also Like (YMAL) lists. The YMAL list for 'Some Book' by 'Juultje van den Nieuwenhof' might have 'This Book' by 'Mel Wallis de Vries'. You can control which columns are included in a search in the Preference->Searching->What to search by default settings

BR

[theducks]

as BR said, the name may have appeared in the comments (a blurb about the book being similar to your author)

If you use the Tag Browser to launch your search, it will create a search term similar to the example from BR

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by theducks

as BR said, the name may have appeared in the comments (a blurb about the book being similar to your author)

If you use the Tag Browser to launch your search, it will create a search term similar to the example from BR

And if you don't want to open the Tag browser to click on things, you can access Advanced Search by pressing Ctrl+Shift+F (or clicking the icon immediately to the left of the search bar), and then using the middle tab (Title/Author/Series - Alt+E) where you have options for equals, contains string, and contains regular expression.

The book list context menu also has a Similar books->Author option that generates an exact and only match for current author - I use this a lot, short cut is Alt+A.

Calibre has almost as many ways to do a search as there are things to search for

BR

[Wipneus]

@Betterred
Sorry for my bad english. I had in the search bar only standing Mell Wallis de Vries. Now i did it with authors:Mell Wallis de Vries in the searchbar and now i get only the books i want.

Thanks !!

[Wipneus]

Now i tried to find a list of only authors:Mell Wallis de Vries to find but now i get all the books in the libary all the books in my Calibre are not a list with all the books off only Mell Wallis de Vries anymore. There are 5 books in the whole Calibre Libary. What i`am doing wrong?

[BetterRed]

@Wipneus - see this sticky thread ==>> Some plugins, can change calibre's search highlighting

BR