Sorting the "Search inside" tab by date published

[el4ctr0n]

Proposal

Dear developers,
Can you please make it possible to sort the search results in the "Search inside" tab by the date of publication (the "First Published" and "Most Recent" sorting options in the dropdown menu)?

It would also be great if the search results in the "Search inside" tab included the year when the book was originally published, just like it's already included in the "Books" tab:

I appreciate you considering this feature request.

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[mekarpeles]

This may be a more challenging issue than one might initially thing because the search inside function is run by archive.org's Elastic Search engine which is different than Open Library's search endpoint.

This means, we could implement the sorts shown on archive.org for full-text search
https://archive.org/search?query=book+of+mormon&sin=TXT&sort=-date (which includes publication date and title), however it may be challenging to extend the existing Open Library sort UI (based on solr). @el4ctr0n if you'd like to give it a try (i.e. passing a sort parameter through to our call to Archive.org Elastic Search) feel free :)