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I really like full-text search for books. Currently I use:

- Safari Books Online: expensive, and only works with books on their platform

- Recoll: libre/free, and can search a local book collection. Built as a desktop app, although there's at least one web client[0]

If either LibreRead or one of the Recoll web UIs can match the speed and UI of Safari's full-text search, I'll be very happy.

[0] I haven't tried it, because it didn't occur to me to look for one until today: https://github.com/koniu/recoll-webui



If you get a chance, try DocFetcher[0]. I use it for my personal calibre ebook library at home, and I love the fact that between it's independent indexing and the calibre portable distribution, I have a completely portable library on my network.

[0] http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html


Thanks. Tried it yesterday. It works well for my use case.




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