Limiting Search Criteria

madelonw · 07-03-2025, 03:50 PM

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!

theducks · 07-03-2025, 04:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by madelonw

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

madelonw · 07-04-2025, 02:51 PM

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.

theducks · 07-04-2025, 03:46 PM

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)

07-03-2025, 03:50 PM	#1
madelonw Connoisseur Posts: 64 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2009 Location: FL Device: A Couple of Kindles, an iPad, a Windows 11 PC, and a Pixel 9a phone	Limiting Search Criteria 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!

07-04-2025, 03:46 PM	#4
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,271 Karma: 61916422 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	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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07-04-2025, 02:51 PM	#3
madelonw Connoisseur Posts: 64 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2009 Location: FL Device: A Couple of Kindles, an iPad, a Windows 11 PC, and a Pixel 9a phone	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.