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Caleb666 · 08-04-2011, 01:26 PM

Hi,

I was reading the Calibre manual on hierarchical subgroups, and an example was given using a custom column called Genres.

Before reading that article, I was in fact going to use the tags themselves to specify the genre or type of book, so the question is, why would you need an extra Genre column to do this?

Would you recommend using tags only for this, or is creating a Genre column a better way to manage a collection?

If I do use Genres, I'm not sure what good tags are going to do me if I already set the genre of some book to History.Military.

08-04-2011, 01:26 PM	#1
Caleb666 Zealot Posts: 101 Karma: 400000 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: iPad 2 64GB	Genres vs. Tags? Hi, I was reading the Calibre manual on hierarchical subgroups, and an example was given using a custom column called Genres. Before reading that article, I was in fact going to use the tags themselves to specify the genre or type of book, so the question is, why would you need an extra Genre column to do this? Would you recommend using tags only for this, or is creating a Genre column a better way to manage a collection? If I do use Genres, I'm not sure what good tags are going to do me if I already set the genre of some book to History.Military. Last edited by Caleb666; 08-04-2011 at 01:28 PM.