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Is there any way I can search recipes in

1 book with title only

multiple books only

1 magazine such as Fine Cooking only

multiple magazines only?

I'm trying to filter my searches.  Thanks.

I'm not sure I'm following your questions 100%, but let me give it a try.

To search in one specific book, click on the book's title and then click "search this book for recipes," then type in whatever other search terms you would like -- all results will be for that book only.

To search for only recipes in books, excluding magazine and blog recipes, do whatever search you like, and make sure to check the "Book Recipes" filter underneath the heading "Only Show". The same applies for searching in magazines only -- just check "Magazine recipes" instead, which will exclude book and blog recipes. If there is a more specific subset of your own books or magazines you want to search in, you would need to create a bookmark. Then you can filter your results by bookmark (directly beneath the Only Show filters). This would work well if you have books in two different physcial locations, or if you have a set of favorite books you want to restrict your search results to, as examples.

To search in only one kind of magazine such as Fine Cooking, check Magazine Recipes under the Only Show filters and also type in "Fine Cooking" (make sure to use the quotations) into the search box along with your other search terms and that should narrow down your results.

Hope that helps, and let me know if I misunderstood any of the scenarios!

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I'm not sure I'm following your questions 100%, but let me give it a try.

To search in one specific book, click on the book's title and then click "search this book for recipes," then type in whatever other search terms you would like -- all results will be for that book only.

When I do this I get all recipes from all books.  For example, I want to find eggplant parmesan from America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook, 2001-2010.  I select this book and this title even shows up in the search with magnifier.  I have to delete that because I can't just type over that.  So I type in eggplant parmesan, but now it pulls all the eggplant related recipes from all the books.  There must be something I am not doing right.

To search for only recipes in books, excluding magazine and blog recipes, do whatever search you like, and make sure to check the "Book Recipes" filter underneath the heading "Only Show". The same applies for searching in magazines only -- just check "Magazine recipes" instead, which will exclude book and blog recipes. If there is a more specific subset of your own books or magazines you want to search in, you would need to create a bookmark. Then you can filter your results by bookmark (directly beneath the Only Show filters). This would work well if you have books in two different physcial locations, or if you have a set of favorite books you want to restrict your search results to, as examples.

Great, this seem to work. 

To search in only one kind of magazine such as Fine Cooking, check Magazine Recipes under the Only Show filters and also type in "Fine Cooking" (make sure to use the quotations) into the search box along with your other search terms and that should narrow down your results.

This works!

Hope that helps, and let me know if I misunderstood any of the scenarios!

Can you please tell me why the first one does not work? 

Much appreciated.

When I do this I get all recipes from all books.  For example, I want to find eggplant parmesan from America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook, 2001-2010.  I select this book and this title even shows up in the search with magnifier.  I have to delete that because I can't just type over that.  So I type in eggplant parmesan, but now it pulls all the eggplant related recipes from all the books.  There must be something I am not doing right.

The issue is that you are deleting the search term for the book, so you are no longer searching in the book but in the entire Library.

1. Click the book title for America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook, 2001-2010 and you get to the book details page 


2. Under the recipes tab is a link "Search this book for recipes" - click that and you go to a recipe search in that book only.


3. Now add "eggplant parmesan" at the end of the search box and you will see the result you want. You do not have to delete the search term - just click anywhere in the box then click End on your keyboard and you will be taken to the end of the text and you can type "eggplant parmesan" then press Enter.

Thank you, thank you now I got it.  I could not space after the last character and was deleting the title first but now I see you just type regardless in the end. 

Something that I would like to be able to do, which I don't think is possible at the moment, is to search for recipes in books from a specific country. For example, say I would like to see which books have a recipe for gingerbread.  I can search separately for UK published books and I can search for 'gingerbread' recipes, but I can't seem to search for indexed UK books that include gingerbread recipes. It would be good to also be able to further refine this search to look only at indexed books that are not in my library and so help to point to books that I might want to purchase :-)

Susan_F - You are correct that you cannot use the country of publication when searching recipes.  I'm not completely sure it is possible since all the filters for recipes are attached to that recipe not to the book.  But I will enquire of our developers.

Jane, while you're talking with the developers -- I doubt Rinshin is the only member who's had a bit of trouble figuring out how to do the search within a single book.  When a user clicks 'Search this book for recipes' it would be good if the cursor defaulted to being already positioned a space over from the end of the book title search term, so that s/he could start typing the filtering terms without deleting the book title.

I agree w Ellabee.  Ideally, make the book title in the search box invisible to us so we can simply search.  Ideally, make "Search this book for recipes" a default setting if you click on a book vs having to click on a box and moving users to a new page.  

Breadcrumbs - can I clarify what you asking for?  If you mean that by clicking on a book title, you would go straight to the recipe search, I don't think that's what everyone would want.  You skip the page where you can see the Recipes in book order, Notes, Reviews, Book details, Bookmarks.  If that's isn't what you meant please let us know.

Hi Jane, sorry...I typed in haste and didn't explain myself very well.  I find I often like to look at the recipes in books I don't own to see if they have dishes that I'll like.  In those circumstances I first go to the Library and search for the book.   I'll use the recently indexed Food & Friends as an example. Once I arrive at the cookbook page (w list of the first 25 recipes) I can either scroll through the pages of recipes but I usally prefer to search for a particular recipe or ingredient.  I then click on "Search this book for recipes" and arrive at a page with the Search Box pre-populated with a code and the books title:

34464 "Food & Friends"  in this instance.

I have to then start typing whatever I'm looking for "after" the pre-popluated text and run the risk (because I always seem to type and move in haste!!) of finding myself typing in the middle of that text because I've plunked my cursor down in the middle of it.  It would be great if the developers could make this text invisible or, when you land on the book page, just have a search box right there that we can use to search the book for recipes vs having to click on a link to take us to another page allowing us to do so.

I hope I've explained this ok...

Explained well, Breadcrumbs.  I also "miss" a lot when I have to maneuver around those pre-set words.  Invisibility would be helpful.