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Old 07-19-2011, 10:31 AM   #1
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Please excuse me if I am asking a question that has been asked many, many times but I find the search facility in MobileRead to be very inflexible and infuriating (unless it is me being thick and not seeing how to limit my search to just one forum!).

I have finally got my head around using genre to classify my library rather than tags.

However, what I haven't yet got my head around is where to download genre information from. Is there one good source, probably with a limit of 50 genres? And if there is, can I download it along with the metadata?

My thanks, in advance, to all you wizzy wizards who will undoubtedly point a doddery old git in the right direction
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Old 07-19-2011, 11:36 AM   #2
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What I have done is to pick a interent book store and mimic their catagories, in my case borders. I looked at the borders web site and their catagory listings that they show and structured my library to mimic them.
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Old 07-19-2011, 01:32 PM   #3
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WRT to the search, use the Search This Forum on the menu bar for the forum. This is the lower menyu bar, just above the forum list.
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Old 07-19-2011, 02:30 PM   #4
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I believe the goodreads metadata plugin (look in the plugin subforum) does this when it pulls the info.
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