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JoeD · 04-10-2012, 08:43 AM

Tags are more flexible than folders, but it'd be nice to have hierarchical tags too, a collection that will contain other collections.

A contrived example,

You could make collections called Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery and place your books accordingly (as you can now) then you could also make a collection for each author (books would then appear in both the genre and author collection)

So far so good. However, now you've a ton of collections on the main screen, wouldn't it be nicer to be able to see

* Authors
* Sci Fi
* Fantasy
* Mystery

and only when you open the Authors collection do you see all the authors.

The way I see this as working would be you add a tag to a book as you do now. But, you can also add a tag to a tag. So a tag (collection) on the main screen would show all books that have that tag and also all tags that have that tag. You'd have complete flexibility to arrange books how you like then.

Bit of care would be needed in the implementation to avoid circular tagging

Whilst Amazon could recreate this setup via checking the metadata and adding a fixed Authors category without tag/tag nesting, it that wouldn't be anywhere near as flexible since the above example was just one possible way people might want to setup their books and not the only possibility.

04-10-2012, 08:43 AM	#11
JoeD Guru Posts: 895 Karma: 4383958 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: na	Tags are more flexible than folders, but it'd be nice to have hierarchical tags too, a collection that will contain other collections. A contrived example, You could make collections called Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery and place your books accordingly (as you can now) then you could also make a collection for each author (books would then appear in both the genre and author collection) So far so good. However, now you've a ton of collections on the main screen, wouldn't it be nicer to be able to see * Authors * Sci Fi * Fantasy * Mystery and only when you open the Authors collection do you see all the authors. The way I see this as working would be you add a tag to a book as you do now. But, you can also add a tag to a tag. So a tag (collection) on the main screen would show all books that have that tag and also all tags that have that tag. You'd have complete flexibility to arrange books how you like then. Bit of care would be needed in the implementation to avoid circular tagging Whilst Amazon could recreate this setup via checking the metadata and adding a fixed Authors category without tag/tag nesting, it that wouldn't be anywhere near as flexible since the above example was just one possible way people might want to setup their books and not the only possibility. Last edited by JoeD; 04-10-2012 at 08:46 AM.