Full Text Search?

silentguy · 02-22-2012, 01:46 PM

Hi!
I know this topic has been discussed more then once, but I haven't heard about it in a while so I thought about bringing it up again.
Last thing I remember where some "It's planned but not any time soon" posts. Are there any news on this front? I currently use an external tool to search my files, but seeing how I use it to improve my tags, it would be nicer to have a way to combine the search and the db. I frequently would use stuff like "which of the recently added books not already tagged X contains word relating to X" and running this externally means i have to manually discard all the ones already tagged X (and it's much slower).

theducks · 02-22-2012, 02:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by silentguy

Hi!
I know this topic has been discussed more then once, but I haven't heard about it in a while so I thought about bringing it up again.
Last thing I remember where some "It's planned but not any time soon" posts. Are there any news on this front? I currently use an external tool to search my files, but seeing how I use it to improve my tags, it would be nicer to have a way to combine the search and the db. I frequently would use stuff like "which of the recently added books not already tagged X contains word relating to X" and running this externally means i have to manually discard all the ones already tagged X (and it's much slower).

Have you tried the advanced search (binoculars)
use a filter to restrict the range
See http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/gui.html#id21 for the syntax of the filter/search

silentguy · 02-22-2012, 03:38 PM

Eh, how would you use that to do a full text search?

I know how to use filters and I've build quite a few advanced searches, but that does not allow me to do the final step "find books that contain word relating to X"...

I could filter for potential books, export them to a folder, run my external tool and work with those results, but that seems rather wasteful... Maybe I could write a plugin that hardlinks the folders in the library that match my search somewhere else, that would save a lot of copying, but this still seems overly complicated :-/

theducks · 02-22-2012, 03:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by silentguy

Eh, how would you use that to do a full text search?

I know how to use filters and I've build quite a few advanced searches, but that does not allow me to do the final step "find books that contain word relating to X"...

I could filter for potential books, export them to a folder, run my external tool and work with those results, but that seems rather wasteful... Maybe I could write a plugin that hardlinks the folders in the library that match my search somewhere else, that would save a lot of copying, but this still seems overly complicated :-/

You want to search inside all books

I thought you wanted to search Tags or comments for a word restricted by a date added.

ilovejedd · 02-22-2012, 04:03 PM

If you meant searching the contents of the entire book, you might want to check out the plug-in Similar Stories by Ian Stott.

02-22-2012, 01:46 PM	#1
silentguy Connoisseur Posts: 88 Karma: 200 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Dortmund, Germany Device: Kindle Paperwhite (10. Generation)	Full Text Search? Hi! I know this topic has been discussed more then once, but I haven't heard about it in a while so I thought about bringing it up again. Last thing I remember where some "It's planned but not any time soon" posts. Are there any news on this front? I currently use an external tool to search my files, but seeing how I use it to improve my tags, it would be nicer to have a way to combine the search and the db. I frequently would use stuff like "which of the recently added books not already tagged X contains word relating to X" and running this externally means i have to manually discard all the ones already tagged X (and it's much slower).

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02-22-2012, 03:38 PM	#3
silentguy Connoisseur Posts: 88 Karma: 200 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Dortmund, Germany Device: Kindle Paperwhite (10. Generation)	Eh, how would you use that to do a full text search? I know how to use filters and I've build quite a few advanced searches, but that does not allow me to do the final step "find books that contain word relating to X"... I could filter for potential books, export them to a folder, run my external tool and work with those results, but that seems rather wasteful... Maybe I could write a plugin that hardlinks the folders in the library that match my search somewhere else, that would save a lot of copying, but this still seems overly complicated :-/

02-22-2012, 04:03 PM	#5
ilovejedd hopeless n00b Posts: 5,110 Karma: 19597086 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: in the middle of nowhere Device: PW4, PW3, Libra H2O, iPad 10.5, iPad 11, iPad 12.9	If you meant searching the contents of the entire book, you might want to check out the plug-in Similar Stories by Ian Stott.

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