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ficbot · 03-14-2011, 01:42 AM

I have been experimenting tonight with the hierarchical tagging, and wow, am I getting bogged down in the genre stuff! I think I had this idea that I wanted my library to be easily browse-able by someone other than me (for example, my mother loads all her ebooks off my computer) so I needed enough tags to clearly allow for easy browsing of over 1500 books. I have separated them into collections and then saved each collection as a saved search so that I can, for example, browse all the general books (not magazines, iPad books or kids books) or browse only the kids books. And when I do that, I can easily see which kid's books have the tag 'mystery' or whatever.

But as for the genre tags, it is taking way to long to get everything sorted properly. It started with simple stuff like 'I want to segregate paranormal books into vampire and non-vampire.' But then we had a historical mystery involving vampires with a romance element, so I started getting into genre entries like 'paranormal.vampire, paranormal.mystery, historical fiction.mystery, mystery.historical fiction, paranormal.romance, romance.paranormal' for a single book just so I could have 'paranormal' as a subset in all of these broader genre categories (mystery, romance, paranormal) and it just got very unwieldy. But on the other hand, with this many books, I suppose I have to be specific if I want myself or others to be able to find anything...

Am I missing something here? Is there a simpler way to set up what I want here? There just doesn't seem to be an easier way to browse for something specific without setting up every conceivable tag combination first. If I click on something like mystery, and then I click on something like romance, it goes straight over to romance without letting me see which romances ARE mystery also...

Perhaps there are plans for a more sophisticated filter/search system down the road where one could get a search box, type in a few things and get results. Then a person could just enter in every tag they could think of (paranormal, mystery, romance etc.) one time (i.e. without needing to do paranormal.romance and paranormal.mystery on the same book). But I don't think this exists now. So how can I best set this up?

03-14-2011, 01:42 AM	#1
ficbot Wizard Posts: 2,409 Karma: 4132096 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: Kindle Paperwhite/iOS Kindle App	Need some help with my genre tagging I have been experimenting tonight with the hierarchical tagging, and wow, am I getting bogged down in the genre stuff! I think I had this idea that I wanted my library to be easily browse-able by someone other than me (for example, my mother loads all her ebooks off my computer) so I needed enough tags to clearly allow for easy browsing of over 1500 books. I have separated them into collections and then saved each collection as a saved search so that I can, for example, browse all the general books (not magazines, iPad books or kids books) or browse only the kids books. And when I do that, I can easily see which kid's books have the tag 'mystery' or whatever. But as for the genre tags, it is taking way to long to get everything sorted properly. It started with simple stuff like 'I want to segregate paranormal books into vampire and non-vampire.' But then we had a historical mystery involving vampires with a romance element, so I started getting into genre entries like 'paranormal.vampire, paranormal.mystery, historical fiction.mystery, mystery.historical fiction, paranormal.romance, romance.paranormal' for a single book just so I could have 'paranormal' as a subset in all of these broader genre categories (mystery, romance, paranormal) and it just got very unwieldy. But on the other hand, with this many books, I suppose I have to be specific if I want myself or others to be able to find anything... Am I missing something here? Is there a simpler way to set up what I want here? There just doesn't seem to be an easier way to browse for something specific without setting up every conceivable tag combination first. If I click on something like mystery, and then I click on something like romance, it goes straight over to romance without letting me see which romances ARE mystery also... Perhaps there are plans for a more sophisticated filter/search system down the road where one could get a search box, type in a few things and get results. Then a person could just enter in every tag they could think of (paranormal, mystery, romance etc.) one time (i.e. without needing to do paranormal.romance and paranormal.mystery on the same book). But I don't think this exists now. So how can I best set this up?