1CraftCouncilBC
On the home page of the librarything, there is a option "search your books". Whenever I am trying to search by the tag, for instance "glass", the results are mixed with other tags as well. Some of them are related to the "Glass", some of them are not at all. How does it actually work? How to sort out it this complication?
2MarthaJeanne
If you want to get just the books with your tag 'glass' you can find that tag in your list of tags, or you can search in 'your books' using the drop down and choosing 'tags'. Otherwise you will get all the books that have glass in the entry somewhere.
4CraftCouncilBC
Than you so much. I understand what I need to do. But my question is how come other results are coming after writing "serach" where those are not related at all or there is nothing mentioned about "glass" at all? Is there any possible way to fix it?
5MarthaJeanne
The two books I looked at that came up in a 'glass' search but did not have a tag 'glass' both had 'glass' in the summary field. If you only want to search tags, then you need to specifically search tags.
6AnnieMod
>4 CraftCouncilBC: It is very probably not a mistake so nothing to fix - unless you restrict the search to the tags only, LT will look at all (or most - depending on what filter is applied) fields. So even if it looks like the book does not belong in the search (because you did not tag it so), the word is there in another field so it really belongs in the results.
If you have an example of a book that really do not have glass anywhere but still gets picked up, please post an example so we can try to find out why it was found.
If you have an example of a book that really do not have glass anywhere but still gets picked up, please post an example so we can try to find out why it was found.
7SandraArdnas
Default search is 'most fields'. To limit to just one you have to specify either in drop-down menu or as >3 lorax: advised.
8waltzmn
>7 SandraArdnas: Default search is 'most fields'. To limit to just one you have to specify either in drop-down menu or as >3 lorax: lorax: advised.
It's a sticky setting, though. (For me, at least.) If you change it, it stays changed until you change it again.
The suggestion in >3 lorax: is probably the best if one usually searches just a single field, but not always the same field.
It's a sticky setting, though. (For me, at least.) If you change it, it stays changed until you change it again.
The suggestion in >3 lorax: is probably the best if one usually searches just a single field, but not always the same field.
9Petroglyph
>4 CraftCouncilBC:
To illustrate what is meant by "default search is 'most fields'" and by >6 AnnieMod:, here are the titles of some editions of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with various levels of additional/extraneous information:
A search in "most fields" for a string that also happens to occur in this extraneous information will also throw up this book. If you site search "Internationaler Buchpreis (from the first item in this list) or even Traditional Chinese Characters (from the last but one), this book will pop up.
To take an example from your library: one other edition of your book Stuff Matters has the title Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World) (Author: Mark Miodownik) published on (March, 2015). And so if you search your library for "published" or even "published on", this book will be among the results. Similarly, a search of your library for "craftsman" will return many results where that word has been used in the Summary field but does not occur in, say, the title or the tags.
To illustrate what is meant by "default search is 'most fields'" and by >6 AnnieMod:, here are the titles of some editions of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with various levels of additional/extraneous information:
- "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Winner of the Corine - Internationaler Buchpreis, Kategorie Kinder- und Jugendbuch 2001 (Harry Potter, 4)"
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Illustrated Edition
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) (Adult Edition) (Mass Market Paperback)
- Rowling, Joanne K., Bd.4 : Harry Potter et la coupe de feu; Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch, französische Ausgabe
- Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire - Gryffindor Edition
- Ha li po te (4) - huo bei de kao yan ('Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' in Traditional Chinese Characters)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Illustrated Edition (Harry Potter Illustrated Edtn) & Unofficial Harry Potter - The Ultimate Amazing Complete Quiz Book 2 Books Collection Set
A search in "most fields" for a string that also happens to occur in this extraneous information will also throw up this book. If you site search "Internationaler Buchpreis (from the first item in this list) or even Traditional Chinese Characters (from the last but one), this book will pop up.
To take an example from your library: one other edition of your book Stuff Matters has the title Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World) (Author: Mark Miodownik) published on (March, 2015). And so if you search your library for "published" or even "published on", this book will be among the results. Similarly, a search of your library for "craftsman" will return many results where that word has been used in the Summary field but does not occur in, say, the title or the tags.
