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Originally Posted by kiwidude
It is a bit like a fun "debate" Starson17 and I have had a few times about the value of the "random tags" that you get if you take in tags from Google Books. His argument is that it is quite cool to be able to do a search for some arbitrary criteria like a character name or location and have matches come back. Now I agree that would be very cool - if it "worked" properly. But it is garbage in, garbage out. There is no quality control over the tagging process (just like there is no consistency or rules over what a publisher/author puts in the synopsis for a book), hence it is down to dumb luck as to what search results if any you will get back. For his purposes, some results are better than none, so it works great for him.
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After two weeks away from civilization, I'm back, and kd's correct. I like mining the original data. I have tags that are consistently applied by me and the original "garbage" tags. Instead of deleting the original tags, I just add new ones. I can find everything that I've tagged and still enjoy searching the rich variety of tags that others have applied.
