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^But if you want to find all the SciFi books in your collection you have to ask two questions to get the answer instead of just sorting the list by genre and pulling out SciFi. I find the concept that a book can only be in one genre as terribly confining and really unhelpful at times. Where do I put "The Sharper Your Knife..." It's Fiction, It's a Romance (sort of, maybe smalll r romance), and it's got some nice recipes in it. So it's both fiction, non-fiction, cooking, romance. If I'm looking for something to make for dinner and want to scan my cookbooks, I probably won't remember that there are some recipes in that novel. Using tags instead of a single-entry column like genre could help me out in this case. And I do mean in THIS case because everyone searches and finds things differently. If the original poster is going to come up with what they should do, they need to look at how they find things and how they classify the world in order to know what path they should go down.
All they need to know is the pros and cons of both using the genre column or using tags instead and determine what they need. This doesn't have to be an OR question, the best search facilities let us do both because searching and browsing are two different processes and yield different information for us.
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