information retrieval system

Searching through thousands of books manually is impractical. The goal of this project is to build a lightweight, desktop-based search engine that allows users to query a large catalogue of books by title and author using different retrieval strategies — ranging from relevance-ranked results to exact phrase matching and logical Boolean queries.

The system must be fast, require no external servers or databases, and provide an intuitive graphical interface so that anyone can explore and find books without writing code or SQL queries