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Rather interested
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Maidenhead
Device: Kindle, Sony Ereader, Ipad & iPhone
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Connect Software and Website not CONNECTed?
Has anybody had this problem:
I use the website to browse what's available because it is way quicker than the software. This morning I saw a book I wanted on the website and so I searched for it via Connect software. At first I did a key words search using the general search - no joy I then tried to do a search using the "title" of the book in the title section of the advanced search - no joy I then tried an "author" search on advanced search- no joy I then tried "author" and "title" and no joy on the first page of 20 books that may have that name and author. Interestingly it has given me 19 pages to look through to find the specific book title and author :-o Is it me or am I doing something wrong? Thanks Andi |
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Addict
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: UK
Device: PRS500, Looking at 700
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No, the search function in the software and on the website do suck quite a lot.
For the search problem I had I found that if I found one book by the author, then clicked on the author it shows you their other books this often gave me the result I wanted where the search function alone would turn up nothing. |
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Gizmologist
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN
Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3
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It seems to be running an individual term search -- i.e. if I search for Tom Clancy (which they ain't got
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Evangelist
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Louisville
Device: Sony Reader PRS-500
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What if you put Tom Clancy in quotes. Then it should search for that literal string I expect.
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Gizmologist
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Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN
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You'd think so, wouldn't you? It seems to do it today, but I could swear it didn't last week.
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Connoisseur
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Device: Sony PRS 500 and Kindle 2 and iPad and iPhone
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It is a surprisingly bad database search function. I suppose most of us could write a better one. Probably they rushed to market, didn't do a good job.
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