Why does store search brings only couple books?

loviedovie · 05-26-2015, 12:40 PM

Hi

When I seacrh Gutenberg and Archive.org I only get couple books listed which is false because I know the topic includes hundreds of books on both domains. For example when I search for "painting" OI get only couple books. Is there a way to list all the results?

thanks

kovidgoyal · 05-26-2015, 10:57 PM

Put your word in the keyword field not the title field. IIRC, If you put it in title then only books with that word in the main title/description are returned. And note that Get Books limits itself to only a few (IIRC ~10) matches per site, so that it doesn't put too much load on the servers.

Get Books is not designed as a book discovery tool, but more as aprice comparison/book download tool for when you already know what book you want.

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loviedovie Addict Posts: 295 Karma: 2139988 Join Date: Nov 2014 Device: bookeen	Why does store search brings only couple books? Hi When I seacrh Gutenberg and Archive.org I only get couple books listed which is false because I know the topic includes hundreds of books on both domains. For example when I search for "painting" OI get only couple books. Is there a way to list all the results? thanks

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05-26-2015, 10:57 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,308 Karma: 27111242 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Put your word in the keyword field not the title field. IIRC, If you put it in title then only books with that word in the main title/description are returned. And note that Get Books limits itself to only a few (IIRC ~10) matches per site, so that it doesn't put too much load on the servers. Get Books is not designed as a book discovery tool, but more as aprice comparison/book download tool for when you already know what book you want.

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