Comment 9 for bug 122132

The "fulltext" field contains the book's entire text, so if you said "fulltext:true" that found books that contained the word "true" somewhere in the contents (that would be a lot of books but not necessarily every book with fulltext). The "has_fulltext" field always contains one word ("true" or "false") depending on whether fulltext is present. "fulltext:true" no longer works on the main solr instance because the fulltext has been moved to a separate SE for performance reasons but you can still use it on the other instance.

Yes, our early UI mockups had an advanced search screen that had such options and (as of the last phone call) we are planning to bring it back, but applying a score boost for fulltext books in basic search is a little bit different. I think we didn't implement advanced search for the softlaunch because there were too many other things going on, and also there is the issue with the flipbook page numbering. However I hope we do it soon.

Related topic: I spoke with Todd on the phone today about flipbook and he explained what he thinks is going on--we may need to run something to crunch the scandata.xml files to fix the page numbers, or add some more server-side flipbook code to handle it at query time. I'm going to see him on Monday and will discuss it with him some more then.