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Re:Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? by bawolff on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @04:05AM (#44178316)
From a good search perspective though you probably dont want 500 different versions of the same book popping up for a query
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Re:Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? by palmfacehn on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @07:24AM (#44179487)
Agreed. I would prefer to see a single result for a single title. The option of pursuing different editions should follow from there.
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Re:Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? by qingcharles on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @06:09PM (#44186079)
And without some sort of weighting system, it wouldn't even know which one is the best one to show the user.
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Re:Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? by notpushkin on Thursday June 05, 2025 @05:29AM (#44189915)
We’ll also need to consider that some versions might be easier to index even though the user would prefer another version. E.g. if we have a TXT and EPub, we might want to index TXT (if it’s clean enough), but present user with EPub (with formatting and stuff).

But it’s not a huge problem actually: just link to the search page instead and let the user decide what they want to download.

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