Everand's library is enormous! If using our general search feature didn't quite find the exact content you're looking for, our advanced search features give you a bit more control of your search results.
Generally speaking, our search works by trying to find your exact terms within our library, which includes audiobooks, books, documents, and more. If not all terms can be found within a document, then you will see results that match as many terms as possible. Modifying your search can enable you to be much more specific. Currently, you can try:
- Adding more terms to a basic search query
- A minus (-) modifier to indicate a term is strongly unpreferred
- Phrases in double quotes (" ") to search for an exact sequence of terms
Read on for more information.
Basic query
In cases where you want to find content on Everand that must include a specific term, simply include the terms that you'd like to be mandatory. For example, maybe you've just read Jane Eyre and are interested in learning more about the author, Charlotte Brontë. You might start with a search term like charlotte bronte. Your first results will likely be various editions of her novels or other collected writings. If you add an additional term, like biography or history, you'll find more books about Charlotte Brontë. So, perhaps your ideal search term is charlotte bronte biography.
Adding clarifying terms to your searches should help you find content that relates more closely to your interests.
Minus (-)
Imagine you're preparing for a trip to Washington and you wonder if Everand has a guidebook that will help plan your activities around Seattle, Mount Rainier, and the Columbia River. You might start by searching for travel guide washington, but find your results full of guides to Washington, D.C. instead! It's understandable that this could happen, but it doesn't help your endeavor. You might try excluding "D.C." from your results by adding a minus sign. Your new search query would be: travel guide washington -dc
Tip: The minus sign can be particularly useful when you have too many search results.
Phrases (" ")
You can search for exact phrases by enclosing words with double quotes. The results will contain documents that have passages that closely match a phrase’s word sequence. For example, suppose you want to find the Charles Dickens book with the famous opening, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” If you search this same phrase without enclosing it in double quotes, you’ll receive hundreds of thousands of results that contain any combination of those individual words. When you search this phrase in quotes, the results immediately return the source of this quote — A Tale of Two Cities — alongside content that intentionally makes reference to this memorable phrase.
You can use the minus (-) modifier with phrases too!