How can I search my tags?

You can search your tags either from the 'Search' page or from 'Your Library' using 'Tags' in the search drop-down. For no good reason these two searches behave differently and the 'Help' on the Search page is mostly incorrect.

• Single Tags can be searched for from either page e.g. 'mytag' or 'my tag'.
• '*' is a wild card and can replace any part of a tag e.g. 'my*' will match all of 'mytag', 'my_tag', 'my tag' and 'mynah bird'
• '*' can also be used alone when it will find all tagged books. Note: it will not find untagged books i.e. those without any tags at all.
• You can search for books tagged with both 'tag_a' and 'tag_b' by using 'tag_a ++tag_b'. You must use two +s with a space before them ' ++'. NB This works only from the 'Search' page it won't work from the 'Your Library' page.
• You can search for books tagged with 'tag_a' and not 'tag_b' by using 'tag_a --tag_b'. You must use two -s with a space before them ' --'. This works from both the 'Search' and 'Your Library' pages.
• You can search for all books not tagged 'mytag' using '--mytag'. This will not find any untagged books.
• You can find all untagged books by sorting the 'Tags' column in the 'Your Library' page (click twice on the blue 'Tags' header).
• At present you cannot directly search for books tagged either 'tag_a' or 'tag_b'.

This GFAQ originally appeared as part of a longer post on the Google group and here which includes the analysis behind it, thanks to sunny, Selune and others who helped create it.

Keywords: greyhead tax search syntax
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