Search your library and save smart shelves
How to search every book's title and text from the library, narrow results with author:, tag: and other filters, and save a search as a smart shelf.
- Windows
- Yes
- Mac
- Yes
- iPad
- Yes
- iPhone
- Yes
The library's search box finds books by title, author and series, and finds words inside the text of every book. Add filters such as author:austen or progress:<50 to narrow the list, then save the search as a smart shelf that keeps itself up to date.
Search your books
- Type in the search box (Search or author:austen). It is at the top of the rail, or in the top bar in the touch layout.
- Results come in two parts:
- Books: books whose title, author or series match, shown in the current view.
- In the text: places inside your books where the words appear, with a snippet. Select one to open the book at that place.
- Press Esc to clear the box.
Search ignores accents and capitals, so "tara" also finds "țară". The last word you type counts as the start of a word, so results appear while you type.
Windows
Press Ctrl+F in the library to go to the search box.
Mac
Press ⌘+F in the library to go to the search box.
iPhone and iPad
Tap Search in the bar at the bottom of the library.
Filter with the search language
Type field:value to look in one field. Select the How to search button (the question mark in the search box) for a list of examples; select one to add it to your search.
| Type | Finds |
|---|---|
emma |
Words in the title, author or series (and an audiobook's narrator) |
"pride and prejudice" |
Those words together, in that order |
title:emma |
Books whose title contains "emma" |
author:austen |
Author, by first or last name |
author:="Jane Austen" |
With =, the whole author name must match |
series:"Harry Potter" |
Series; quotes keep words together |
publisher:penguin |
Publisher |
tag:fiction |
A tag and the tags under it (fiction.classics), but not "fictional" |
tag:exam |
Books tagged exam |
status:reading |
to-read, reading, finished or none; the start is enough: status:fin |
rating:>=4 |
Rating from 0 to 5; also <, <=, >, = |
progress:<50 |
Percent read; progress:0 is unread |
pages:>300 |
Number of pages |
added:>30daysago |
Added after a date |
opened:thismonth |
Last opened in a period |
published:1813 |
Published date |
lang:fr |
Language, such as lang:ro for Romanian |
format:pdf |
File format, including other formats kept for the same book |
kind:audio |
Audiobooks; kind:text for everything else |
narrator:fry |
An audiobook's narrator |
isbn:9780141439518 |
ISBN; hyphens and spaces are ignored, and an ISBN-10 also finds its ISBN-13 form |
missing:yes |
Linked books whose file is gone |
storage:link |
Books read from where they are; storage:copy for books kept in the library |
tag:"" |
Empty quotes find books where the field is empty: here, books with no tags |
-tag:poetry |
A minus leaves books out; it works before any term |
Dates
added, opened and published take a year (2026), a month (2026-11) or a day (2026-11-04), or one of these: today, yesterday, thismonth, thisyear, lastyear, and a number with daysago, weeksago, monthsago or yearsago, such as 30daysago. A date stands for its whole period: added:2026-11 is any day of November, and added:>2026-11 is December onwards.
Combine terms
Terms separated by spaces must all match: author:verne lang:fr finds Verne's books in French. Add a minus to leave something out: author:austen -status:finished finds the Austen books you have not finished.
Save a search as a smart shelf
- Type a search of at least two characters, or open a category such as an author or a tag.
- Select Save search.
- Type a Shelf name and select Save.
The shelf appears under Smart shelves in the rail. It keeps the search and the sort, and always shows the books that match now, as your library changes.
Rename or delete a smart shelf
- Select the shelf's More button in the rail.
- Choose Rename and type the new name, or choose Delete.
Deleting a smart shelf never removes books; they stay in the library.
Good to know
- A field LuceVoce does not know, such as
re:zero, is searched as an ordinary word. - A value it cannot read, such as
rating:abc, is ignored, so a half-typed search never empties the list. - To search only inside the book you are reading, use Search in the reading view. See Search a book and go to a page.
Last updated 13 November 2026