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Subject: List search fail
Date Posted: 5/29/2024 6:36 PM ET
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I cannot get the site to give me results by searching using full book title or author name in TBR or WL. I know multiple books by the auhor were on my TBR last week. 
Anyone else having trouble??

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Date Posted: 6/1/2024 5:45 PM ET
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I'm not having search issues, but what search terms are you using? Maybe someone here can help.

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Date Posted: 6/2/2024 2:53 PM ET
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Jeanne, As you probably already know, the search engines here require exact names to find something. One letter off comes back with no result.   Try just using just the last name of the author or a major word from the title to see what happens.

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Date Posted: 6/2/2024 7:30 PM ET
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Last names and partial book titles did not work either.  No mispelled words either. 
things work for a while then I get glitches again several weeks later it seems. 

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Date Posted: 6/3/2024 2:34 PM ET
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If you'll give us a couple of examples, Thomas and I can try the same searches and see what comes up.

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Date Posted: 6/3/2024 4:16 PM ET
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Now the Search function can't find ANY books by Frieda McFadden!  this has gotten so frustrating!

 



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Date Posted: 6/3/2024 5:29 PM ET
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I got 43 books searching Freida McFadden. You are spelling her first name wrong.

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Date Posted: 6/3/2024 8:11 PM ET
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Aaahhhhh, thanks!

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Date Posted: 7/26/2024 10:45 AM ET
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I have also had trouble with the search feature when putting in the title and author. Numerous books "were not available". What I found that helped was to find the book elsewhere (Amazon, google, etc.) and record the ISBN number, then put in ISBN number on the PBS search. That brought up the book and its various formats.