Currently the standard search lets you search by Author, Title, Series, Publisher, Year, ISBN and Tag. A search on Title returns all REVIEW, COVER ART and INTERIORART Titles, which makes it hard to find regular fiction. Suggest adding a new "Fiction Title" search and changing the current "Title" search to "All Titles".
Anonymous
I think it might be better to simply make the current search into a fiction title search, and permit searches for REVIEW, COVER ART and INTERIORART only via Advanced Search. -DES
I don't know how many of our users are sophisticated enough to use Advanced Search that way. Infrequent ISFDB-related comments on rec.arts.sf.written suggest that some posters are using it, but I suspect that most occasional users don't use Advanced search. If we decide to do this, we may want to add a big link to the Results page, which would say something like "This search doesn't include Reviews, Cover Art or Interior Art. To search for them, please use Advanced Search".
Coded in common/SQLparsing.py 1.25, biblio/common.py 1.26, biblio/se.py 1.12, mod/isfdblib 1.8, edit/isfdblib 1.8. Implemented in r2009-22.