HELP FOR DBI-MOBILE
(1) BOOK FORMATS INDEXED
(2) HOW TO ENTER QUERIES: SIMPLE
(3) HOW TO ENTER QUERIES: ADVANCED
(4) SHORT TUTORIAL: COMPLEX SEARCHES
(5) ENTERING NON-ENGLISH CHARACTERS

1. FORMATS:
   DBI INDEXES THE FOLLOWING FORMATS:
   PDF, KINDLE, EPUB, TEXT, GRAPHIC
   (DIGITIAL FACSIMILIES) HTML, MSReader,
   ALONG WITH A FEW THAT ARE LESS
   COMMON, SUCH AS DjVu, .DOC, & AUDIO

   THE FOLLOWING DEVICES SHOULD READ
   THE ASSOCIATED FORMATS:

   KINDLE  = PDF, KINDLE, TXT
   NOOK    = EPUB, PDF, TXT
   iPADs     = PDF, TXT, GRAPHIC, HTML,
                     KINDLE*, NOOK*
   PHONES= HTML, TXT, PDF, GRAPHIC
           * with purchase of Kindle or Nook
             apps from the Apple iPAD store

   DESPITE THE SMALL SCREENS OF
   PHONES, MOST SMARTPHONES CAN BE
   USED FOR READING BOOKS. THE
   EASIEST FORMATS ARE THOSE WITH
   FLEXIBLE (WRAPPING) TEXT, SUCH AS
   HTML. TURN YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS TO
   READ FIXED-LENGTH FORMATS

   CHECK YOUR APPS STORE TO FIND AN
   APP THAT WILL ALLOW YOU TO READ AN
   ALTERNATIVE FORMAT ON YOUR DEVICE

2. SIMPLE SEARCH:
   DBI HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO ACCEPT
   VERY SIMPLE QUERIES IN WHATEVER
   ORDER YOU ENTER THE WORDS. THE
   FOLLOWING ARE EXAMPLES:
       Verne Leagues
       "Franklin, Ben" Almanac
       WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE HENRY IV
       SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM IV HENRY
       "SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM"
       Author:"Shakespeare, William"

  * PUT PHRASES WITHIN QUOTE MARKS " "
  * DBI SEARCHES BOTH THE AUTHOR &
    TITLE FIELDS OF THE DATABASE FOR
    THE WORDS ENTERED.

  *TO RESTRICT YOUR ENTRY TO THE
    AUTHOR, DEFINE THE SEARCH AS:
       Author:"Verne" or
       Author:"Verne, Jules"

   *TO RESTRICT YOUR ENTRY TO THE
    TITLE, DEFINE THE SEARCH AS:
        Title:"HENRY"
        Title:"Henry IV"

   *AUTHOR & TITLE CAN BE COMBINED.

3. ADVANCED SEARCH:
    DBI USES STANDARD BOOLEAN LOGIC
    TO PARSE QUERIES. THE FOLLOWING
    ARE EXAMPLES:
       "Shakespeare, " AND "Henry V"
       "Shakespeare, " AND "Henry V "
       Author:Doyle Title:Sherlock
       Author:Verne AND (Title:20,000
              OR Title:world)
       Verne AND (20,000 OR world)
       "Under the Sea"
       Author:Shakespeare AND NOT
           title:Henry AND NOT title:Richard

   DBI WILL ACCEPT EITHER WORD(S) OR
   PHRASES(S). TO SPECIFY A PHRASE,
   ENCLOSE THE PHRASE IN QUOTATION 
   MARKS ("  "). UNLESS THE WORD OR
   PHRASE IS SPECIFIED AS AN 
   AUTHOR OR TITLE, DBI WILL SEARCH
   BOTH THE AUTHOR & TITLE FIELDS.

  *YOU CAN USE  AND NOT  TO
   RESTRICT OR NARROW THE SEARCH.
  *YOU CAN USE  OR  TO BROADEN
   THE SEARCH.
  *YOU CAN USE THE HYPHEN (-) TO
    REPLACE "AND NOT"

   EXAMPLES:
     Author:Shakespeare -Henry
     Author:"Shakespeare, Will" -"Henry IV"
     Author:Shakespeare -Henry -Richard
     Mexico -"New Mexico" 
         (to find Mexico, but not New Mexico)

   DBI DOES NOT ACCEPT THE "GREATER
   THAN" OR THE "LESS THAN" SYMBOLS
     (">" or "<").

   WILDCARDS: YOU CAN ENTER
       danc*    [with the asterik character]
   AND YOU WILL GET THE SAME RESULTS
   AS THE EXAMPLE IN THE NEXT SECTION.

4. A SHORT TUTORIAL:
   DBI USES "STRING" SEARCHES FOR
   FINDING RECORDS. - BY ENTERING WAR
   YOU WILL FIND "WAR" ANYWHERE
   WITHINTHE RECORD (INCLUDING WITHIN
   THE TITLE OR WITHIN A WORD
   FOR EXAMPLE, "WAR" WILL FIND:
       war, warfare, warplanes, warlord,
           hardware, etc.,

   IF YOU WERE LOOKING FOR BOOKS
   WITH THE WORD "DANCE" IN THE  
   TITLE, IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO
   ENTER THE WORD AS  Danc 
   (LEAVING OFF THE "ing"). THIS WOULD
   RETURN:
       dance, dancer, and dancing,

   SOMETIMES, LESS IS MORE. USING
   THE EXAMPLE FROM ABOVE:
       Verne Leagues
   BY KEEPING THE QUERY AS SIMPLE AS
   POSSIBLE, THE RESULTS ARE MORE
   COMPLETE, RETURNING BOTH:
       20,000 LEAGUES and
       twenty-thousand leagues

   TO FIND VARIANTS, INCLUDE THE
   VARIANTS. AS AN EXAMPLE, TO FIND
   BOOKS WITH 'WISCONSIN' IN THE TITLE
   (OR AUTHOR), YOU MIGHT ENTER THE
   FOLLOWING:
       Wisconsin OR Wis. OR Wisc. 
   TO ACCOUNT FOR THE VARIOUS
   ABBREVIATIONS USED IN A TITLE

   BY BEING CAREFUL WHERE YOU USE
   THE QUOTATION MARKS TO DEFINE
   A PHRASE, YOU CAN ACHIEVE
   MORE ACCURATE RESULTS.
   NOTE THE DIFFERENCE BELOW WHERE
   THE "SPACE" CHARACTER HAS BEEN
   INSERTED OR OMITTED AFTER THE
   WORD "HENRY"
      "Shakespeare, W" AND "Henry V"
      "Shakespeare, W" AND "Henry V "
   THE FIRST EXAMPLE WILL FIND BOTH
   HENRY V AND HENRY VI, WHILE THE
   SECOND EXAMPLE WILL ONLY FIND
   HENRY V.

   ON BOTH EXAMPLES, NOTE THAT YOU
   WILL MISS ANY RECORDS WHERE THE
   TITLE IS:
       Henry the Fourth

   IF YOU ONLY ENTERED "astro" (LOOKING
   FOR ASTRONOMY), YOU WOULD ALSO
   FIND ASTROLOGY -- A VERY DIFFERENT
   SUBJECT. ENTERING:
       astrol
   WILL FIND:
       Astrology and Astrological, etc.
   ENTERING:
       Astron
   WILL FIND:
       Astronomy and Astronomical, etc.

   WHEN SEARCHING TITLES, BE AWARE
   OF ARCHAIC SPELLINGS & USAGES.
   FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE 19TH CENTURY,
      "New York"
   WAS SOMETIMES SPELLED AS
      "New-York" (with a hyphen),
   WHEN USED AS AN ADJECTIVE. AND
      "United States"
   WAS SOMETIMES SPELLED AS
      "United-States", etc.

5. ENTERING NON-ENGLISH CHARACTERS:

   MOST SPELLINGS HAVE BEEN
   REGULARIZED TO AMERICAN ENGLISH.
      "Bronté, Charlotte"
   SHOULD BE ENTERED AS:
      "Bronte, Charlotte".

   THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS:

 â ä à å á ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ñ ò ó ô ö ù ú û ü ÿ
              should all be entered as
 a a a a a c e e e e i i i i n o o o o u u u u y

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