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Originally Posted by Starson17
I love the long tail, but I understand why some want to reduce their tag list. I keep a custom genre column that serves the purpose of broad categorization.
Instead of throwing away the long tail, there were other options. They could have copied the tags into a custom tag-type column and thrown away the tail from that column. That way, a tag on 5 books might later have made it past the 6 book threshold when another book with that tag arrived and they ran the process again (copy all tags to a custom column and delete the long tail from the custom column).
Data is so hard to come by that throwing it away seems a crime.
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Ordinarily I'd agree, however, having permutation upon permutation of
misspelled/malformed tags, is not my idea of "data".
You mention librarians above…trust me, no
sober librarian
would have added the tags I deleted hehe
But as you say, of course YMMV and it seems it does
Btw my approach above combined with the GoodReads plugin +
dwanthny's customization
and the
BISAC Subject list has worked
wonders in my library.