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Old 03-29-2026, 11:22 PM   #1
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I'm running Calibre 9.3 on a windows 11 laptop. When I search for: Not So Straight Up I get no results. But if I search for: Straight Up it finds the book. Do I have a setting wrong somewhere?
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I'm running Calibre 9.3 on a windows 11 laptop. When I search for: Not So Straight Up I get no results. But if I search for: Straight Up it finds the book. Do I have a setting wrong somewhere?
Quote the whole title
Not is a keyword (All but this)
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Ah, I didn't realize that. Thank you so much.
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I'm running Calibre 9.3 on a windows 11 laptop. When I search for: Not So Straight Up I get no results. But if I search for: Straight Up it finds the book. Do I have a setting wrong somewhere?
This is the search you want.
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The problem can be if you do just a search on words, that you get results based on other titles and/or descriptions. Depending on how common the words are, you can get a lot of results.
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