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  • All search terms are case-insensitive
  • % is automatically added to the start and end of the search term to match any part of the chosen field, e.g. 'smith' will match 'Smith', 'Goldsmith', 'Smithson', 'Wordsmiths' etc.
  • Author names may be entered in 'Firstname Surname' or 'Surname, Firstname' format, e.g. 'charles dickens' and 'dickens, charles' will return the same results
  • Standard MySQL wildcards may be used
    • %: any number of characters, e.g. 'rob%son' will match 'Robson', 'Robinson', 'Robertson', 'Robert Henderson' etc.
    • _: a single character, e.g. 'be_t' will match 'beat', 'belt', 'bent', 'best' etc. but not 'bet' or 'beast'
  • The dummy books can only be searched by title as they do not have any of the other properties of the real books.