New search, now with "working-ness!"
I've changed how the "all fields" search for your library works. It's new and still being worked on—you can discuss problems and requests here on Talk. But it's faster, solves most character set issues and allows "fielded" queries.Example queries:
greek history
"greek history"
greek history -war -"peloponnesian war"
gree* history
*disestablishmentarianism
tag: greek author: homer
title: finger* subject: pick-pockets
source: amazon all: history
Update: It supports "all," "tag," "title," "author," "ISBN," "subject," "dewey," "LCCN," "source," "date," "review" and "comment." (You can use plural for all names too.) By default, it now uses the field "most," which is "all" minus subjects, reviews and comments.
posted by Tim at 7:54 AM
12 Comments:
I don't understand.
if 'It supports "all," "tag," "title," "author," "ISBN," "subject," "dewey," "LCCN," "source," "date," "review" and "comment." (You can use plural for all names too.) By default, it now uses the field "most," which is "all" minus subjects, reviews and comments.' how can it include "Comment" if it is minus 'subject, reviews and Comment'?
The primary value of Librarything to me is being able to do an 'All Fields" search and recall the mass of data I've inputed, primarily relating to Contents pages - so that I can find additional short stories/essays etc and subjects.
Although in theory I could input this data into the Tags field - the author field is very restricted and takes only up to half a dozen authors or so.
Please bring back the ability for me to search 'Comments' field because without this facility Librarything.com becomes extremely limiting!
Peter: So, by default it searches everything except subjects, reviews and comments. This is partially about speed—most of the time most users don't need that other data, and getting it slows it down. And it's partially about use. I can certainly see some users being annoyed that books were showing up because their review contained a reference to a book; sometimes you want to search the bibliographic data, not your reviews as well.
So, by default, it's "most." If you use "all" it searches all, including the comments. Four extra letters! :)
I think that's a good compromise.
ooo, I love it! thanks!
Well, I thought it was cool...but I can't get it to work in Firefox or IE. :(
No, I think the problem you were having was the server problem John posted about. Let me know if it's not working now.
It's workin', thanks! :D
We are inundated with teeny bopper/preteen talk groups. Aren't they slowing us down, too? These are talk overs, not book lovers. Most of the groups are private, but if you display the person who made the group private, then scroll down through all the comments you will see that is the method used to talk. This may inflate the group numbers, but is that what we need? One group, something to do with cheese, was removed, but the starter just started another group (cheese 2?) proudly saying he/she was back. What can be done?
Anon again here. Meant to say that most, BUT NOT ALL, of these groups are private. The cheese group was I LOVE CHEESE and its successor.
Anon again here. Meant to say that most, BUT NOT ALL, of these groups are private. The cheese group was I LOVE CHEESE and its successor.
It's i like cheese and i like cheese 2. Same scenario except group is not private but one must join to post. Look at starter's profile and comments area.
And look at all the groups to which these users belong. Same thing
This is quite nice. Also, I'd really like to be able to search by using the cuecat to swipe the isbn bar code.
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