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Originally Posted by dwanthny
I agree. I use my tags to create categories so I turn off the automated download of tags with the metadata.
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My alternative view:
If you turn off the automated download of tags, you lose all the useful tags prepared by others for your books. Sometimes those tags were prepared by professionals and sometimes they link together books from the same publisher with secondary tags that I would never have thought to add. Without them, you have to do all the tag work yourself.
The online tags do provide valuable and useful additional information about my books - especially since we don't have any way to content search the books. The reason they are often turned off is simply because tags are also used for other purposes, especially for e-readers that build collections from tags, or where tag genres are used in the filename or directory name. The tags pulled from online aren't consistent enough for that use.
Personally, I don't need tags for most of the "other purposes." For those I need, I simply add my own tags. By the time I need them for anything else, I hope that the user-defined tags will have become available for those other purposes (usable in folder names during Save or Send operations, etc.). If not, I will move the text string "tags" into a user defined tags field or into the "comments" field so I still can browse, search and use them.
Eventually, I will definitely separate my personal tags from the online tags I like. We already have some ways to do that, I just haven't decided which way I like best, and my decision may change depending on when/if we can use custom tags for the same functions that default tags are used for.