Library Sort/Search

[Quarnozian]

It'd be nice if our library could be sorted, similarly to how the Advanced Search lets you choose how the results are sorted. Shouldn't be difficult on a technical level... but maybe it hasn't been done because it's resource intensive?

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Additionally, it'd be great if there was a way to search only within the library contents.

I don't know if this would be more or less intensive than a normal search... but I feel like it should be less? Because it only has to search the titles within the library, as opposed to searching EVERY title.

Spoiler: Exclude Library Titles

I'm not going to bother suggesting the "exclude library titles from search results" that has already been posted multiple times.

I already feel like this would require a lot more resources to execute... because it'd have to:

1. Perform the search
2. Hold onto the results
3. Fetch the user's library
4. Remove library titles from search results
5. display 1 page worth of results
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6. Repeat all five steps when the next page of results is requested.
   (unless the site stores multiple pages of results in a cookie, so it can just request the next set without needing to perform all the work again until going past the last pre-stored page.)

 

[Keith2000]

I like that Suggestion a lot. I have found it especially inconvenient when you have a lot of bookmarked titles. And it doesn't have to be that complex; they can either add a filter in the 'Advanced Search' for titles that are in at least one of your libraries, similar to the 'Content Rating' filter, or they can add a filter search into the 'Library Page', like the one that they have in the 'Advanced Search' page.

Would make the site as a whole a lot more user-friendly.

 

[SLeM9999]

I was just coming to the forums to ask whether searching within library was possible -- for example if I want to search for tag HAREM within READING that does not seem to be possible. But Advanced Search does not have any way of selecting by library status