Thread: Tag Management
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Old 08-18-2010, 02:38 PM   #5
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You can get close to tags-within-tags or sub-tags using punctuation eg "Food", "Food: Pie", "Food: Cheese". This has the benefit of not requiring supplemental device support. Does calibre support saving your library into a file structure based on the tags? I am confused how tags would become folders.

I like the tag editor mock up! I too would make good use of additional functionality related to editing tags (and authors, publishers, & series for that matter).

I guess there are a few approaches to tagging a library.
Going through it systematically labeling entries with a limited number of distinct tags.
Going through it systematically, downloading tags from metadata sources, labeling entries with innumerable (but thorough) distinct tags.
And the approach I settled on, downloading a pantload of tags for the library, then going through and culling, merging, etc. until I am left with a reasonable number of distinct tags.

All three approaches would benefit from a few additional capabilities on the Tag Management panel...I think lucidcrux defined those very well.
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