[bksvol-discuss] Narrowing or Widening Your Search
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:37:32 -0500
Hi everyone!
I remember some time ago that someone said that they wished that books
could be excluded in a search to streamline the results. I was just
reading this page and found this little gem.
Use a minus (-) to search for all books that DO NOT contain a certain word.
For example:
mystery -Agatha -Christie
returns all books containing "mystery" but not "Agatha" and "Christie."
In case you want to do the opposite, here's that information.
Use the wildcard character (*) to broaden your search results. For example:
"king" returns "king", not "peking" or "kingsley"
"*king" returns "peking"
"king*" returns "kingsley"
"*king*" returns both "peking" and "kingsley"
Common articles ("a", "an", "of", "the", "be", "is") are not searched as
they return
too many results.
The information above came from:
http://www.bookshare.org/_/gettingStarted/findBooks#RequestaBook
Debby
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