Entering Names, Titles, and Ranges of Numbers

General Information

Booksinprint.com is not case sensitive. For example, you can enter Jane Austen, jane austen, Jane austen, jane Austen, or JANE AUSTEN into a search field with the same results.

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Entering people's names, including fictional characters

Entering titles (e.g., of a book or audiobook)

Entering ranges of numbers into search fields (such as a price range)

Entering people's names

• Authors/contributors/performers known by a first name and last name: You can search for "Dickens" or "Charles Dickens" or "Dickens, Charles" or "Dickens Charles" or "charles dickens."
• Authors/contributors/performers known by a first name, middle name and last name: You can search for "Arthur conan doyle" or "doyle Arthur conan" -- but not "doyle conan Arthur"
• Last names with punctuation (e.g., D'Agostino) can also be found under "Dagostino."
• You can also ignore punctuation in first and middle names. For example, "T.S. Eliot," "T S Eliot," " Eliot, T S" and "Eliot, T. S." will all work.
• You'll find "de la Teja" under "D" in the Author/Contributor index. Similarly, "van Hastert" can be found under "V" in the Author/Contributor index.
• Foreign names consisting of compound last names (e.g., Gonzales y Martinez) are found under the first element of the compound last name in the Author/Contributor index.

When searching for works about a person, you can use any Keyword index:

When searching for works about a person, you can also use a Subject index, but the name must be entered last name first:

When searching for works about a fictional character, you can enter the name first-name-last or last-name-first:

Entering Titles

In any Title (Exact) field, you must enter the complete title (or the title with wildcards)-- but you can leave out leading articles if you wish:

In any Keyword in Title field, you can enter a word or words from any title field (title, title with supplement, subtitle, series title, original title, translated title, announced title, or title of original source for audiobooks and videos). You can enter the keywords in any order:

When doing a Quick Search on a title, booksinprint.com performs a Keyword in Title search so you can (1) enter a word or words from any title field (title, title with supplement, subtitle, series title, original title, translated title, announced title, or title of original source for audiobooks and videos) and (2) enter the keywords in any order:

Boolean searching works much the same way.

• When searching from the Title (Exact) index, enter the complete title (with or without leading articles): ti=grapes of wrath or ti=the grapes of wrath
• When searching from the Keyword in Title index, enter a word or words from any title field (title, title with supplement, subtitle, series title, original title, translated title, announced title, or title of original source for audiobooks and videos). You can enter the keywords in any order: kt=grapes wrath or kt=wrath or kt=wrath grapes

For definitions of title, title with supplement, subtitle, series title, original title, translated title, announced title, or title of original source for audiobooks and videos, go to the glossary.

Entering ranges of numbers

When using the Boolean Search workspace and searching from the numeric indexes listed below, you can use the symbols < and > to specify a range of prices, years, ISBNs, etc. < is the "less than" symbol and > is the "greater than" symbol.

• Dewey Index
• ISBN Index
• LCCN Index
• Price Index
• Publication Year

Examples:

pr=29.95 will return titles that cost exactly $29.95

pr>5 andpr<50 will return titles that cost more than $5.00 but less than $50.00

py=1998 will return titles published in 1998

py>1930 and py<1960 will return titles published between January 1, 1930 and December 31, 1960