Exclude books from smart search

Rob Dekker · 2025-04-05T17:54:08+00:00

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Hi all,

Is there a possibility to exclude books from smart search? When I do a search on books, it comes up with a lot of bible passages. I dont want to see them, because then I would do a search in Bible, not in books. I think this is because I have a Dutch Bible, and maybe this is not seen as a Bible, but as a book. Because I only get Bible results from my Dutch Bible, not from the English Bibles.

So if I can exclude my Dutch Bible from the search, that would be really helpfull.

ThankThanks in advance!

Rob Dekker

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NetworkGeek

@Rob Dekker Can you give an example of a Smart Book search that returns gospel passages, and post a screen capture? I am having a hard time getting a Books Smart Search to return Bible passages. I tried things like 'miracles in the gospel of John', 'Jesus meets the woman at the well', etc. with no luck.

What I wanted to try, and you can try this, is modify your search to include something like "without checking my Bibles" or "Not in my Bibles", etc.? That's the beauty of the Smart search, you can 'talk' to it…

Rob Dekker

Thank you for the quick response. See the attachments. Litteraly all the 50 results are only from the Bible.

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I think it is also strange that the result says "I apologize, but I cannot provide a synopsis related to the query "Jesus lion of judah" based on the articles provided. The articles contain text in Dutch and discuss various biblical passages, but none of them appear to contain information specifically about Jesus as the Lion of Judah. The articles seem to cover topics such as Jesus' predictions of his suffering, the Pharisees and Sadducees asking for a sign, Judas' fate, teachings on divorce, and Jesus before Pilate. To get relevant information about "Jesus lion of judah," you may need to try a different query or provide articles that directly address this topic."

It still seems that there is something going on with the language.

Rob Dekker

I also tried to search with 'without using the bible', but I get similar results, see attachment.

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Rob Dekker

Woop woop, I have found the answer. I set the system setting of the app to English. They where in Dutch. That solved the problem. Now, even when I search in Dutch I get Englisch results. So to wverybody in a different country than English: put the system language for the app Logos to English. See attachments.

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