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Originally Posted by itimpi
The big problem with the Dewey system is that is hierarchical. I can see that this is necessary for physical books as they have to be filed somewhere. However that means that one is at the mercy of the person who decided what the hierarchy should be for a particular book. I much prefer the tag system as that means I can add any sort of classifications to a book, and do not have to worry about their relationship to each other. It therefore seems a much more powerful method of categorising books than Dewey provides.
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Yes I agree!! .. except for one thing ..
*sorting*!
Tags are great for
filtering but as currently implemented in Calibre they are
useless for
sorting
The whole point of having Dewey implemented would be that you can "cluster" books by high level category. So that you can locate books that are related to, but not necessarily precisely, what you were looking for initially.
As for being "at the mercy of", I find that I am currently "at the mercy of" the persons that assigned tags to a book in BookThing or Isbndb. The only difference between that and Dewey is that Dewey has been assigned by people who are experts at classification. So currently I have to laboriously go thru the imported tags and remove tags that are totally useless and often just plain wrong. At least, by importing Dewey, we could start from a known reference point and add tags that are meaningful to ourselves from there.