Advice with Book managing in Calibre

[BetterRed]

If you don't qualify the search term with a specific column name e.g. title:"sword", then all columns are searched. The Comments column (and similar columns) are not indexed so searching in them is slower.

You can control which columns are searched via the Preference-Searching->What to search by default settings.

BR

[copyrite]

My favorite means to search is using
Shift+Ctrl+F
I can easily navigate by keyboard to any tab/field (using the tab key and also the ALT+[underscored letter] combos), type who or what I'm looking for, press enter and up comes my search very quickly(and I have a very large library).

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

If you don't qualify the search term with a specific column name e.g. title:"sword", then all columns are searched. The Comments column (and similar columns) are not indexed so searching in them is slower.

You can control which columns are searched via the Preference-Searching->What to search by default settings.

BR

Yes, exactly. I have Calibre searching only the title, author and series column.

[Sirtel]

Also, in the searching preferences, delete the checkmark that's before the option "Highlight search results instead of restricting the book list to the results". Then you see only the relevant results, not the entire library with the results highlighted.

[Jo69]

Originally Posted by milady133

How are you searching? When I search for books Calibre shows up only the books that match my search, the rest of the books are filtered or of view until I delete the search

I just open calibre and type in the name of the book.
It is highlighted but always seem to have to scroll way down the list to find it.

[Jo69]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Also, in the searching preferences, delete the checkmark that's before the option "Highlight search results instead of restricting the book list to the results". Then you see only the relevant results, not the entire library with the results highlighted.

Thanks but where is this? Sorry to be thick lol.

[MerlinMama]

Originally Posted by Jo69

Thanks but where is this? Sorry to be thick lol.

Usually between the search bar and the saved search box, you will have a button that is a square with lines of text (kind of looks like a book page). Press this to disable highlighting. It will then have a bar through it. I know sometimes it can be hidden, then you can go to Preferences=>Searching and uncheck the Highlight box

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Jo69

Thanks but where is this? Sorry to be thick lol.

See ==>> Some plugins, can change calibre's search highlighting

Tip, there are sticky threads at the top of each calibre forum (including the main one), they contain information pertinent to common issues. You can save yourself time and embarrassment by having a look there before posting.

BR

[mdclanahan]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

This is how I have mine. In addition I have it so the row text color changes to red for read books.

How did you set this up? I'd love to do the same thing.


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[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by mdclanahan

How did you set this up? I'd love to do the same thing.

Preferences->Look and Feel->Column Colouring ಠ_ಠ

BR