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Originally Posted by transmitthis
Thats kind of what I end up doing, I use the normal tags for general details downloaded via the metadata plugins, but end up appending a tag sometimes or removing one.
It still looks messy, so I just went for a Genre column which is always shown, that way it all looks organised to my eyes, and the most relevant information is always to hand.
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I was already using tags for genres, so I just copied the current tags to a new Genres column. I'd been wanting to make use of downloaded tags for certain books, plus I get tired of cleaning up the never ending tags attached to Smashwords books. (Some weird tagging going on over there - did you know there are apparently 30 ways to say "historical romance?)
I already had a "subtags" field that I used for non-genre info like "needs fixed" or for narrow subgenres that don't have yet enough books to warrant a full genre, like Steampunk. When there are enough books (6+), they "graduate" to a full genre.
Now I can keep my nice organized genres (I have about 50 right now) and deal with attached and downloaded tags separately and when I feel like it. I really should have done this several months and several hundred books ago, so I'm quite relieved it was so easy to make the switch.