Find specific PASSAGES inside books — returns page-level snippets with citation URLs. Use this when you want a quote or evidence on a topic across the whole library. ORIENTATION HINT: if the user has named a specific author or work, prefer get_book (returns a summary + chapter outline) over passage hunting — every book in the corpus has an AI-generated summary that is usually the right first read. Use search_translations when sweeping across many books for evidence of a theme. For finding which BOOKS cover a topic, use search_library. Query tips: single distinctive terms ("memory palace", "wax tablet") work best; multi-word natural-English queries ("unity of the intellect") may return fewer results because matching is term-based, not phrase-based. Each snippet has a snippet_type — "translation"/"ocr" means it is a verbatim extract from the source text; "summary" means it is AI-generated description (do not quote those as the author's words). Response includes total_matches, returned, and offset for pagination. Cross-cultural tip: for pre-modern or non-Western topics, search source-tradition vocabulary rather than modern English terms — e.g. for seminal economy search "jing" or "bindu" or "istimnāʾ", not "semen retention"; for female homoeroticism search "tribade" or "sahq", not "lesbian". The corpus is indexed via period translations that use tradition-internal terminology.
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