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What?
I don't really understand the question? Presumably, the 'Reading List' plugin has some use over tags, or it wouldn't even need to exist. I'm not sure why I would be asked why the lists are more useful than just using tags.
_I_ use the plugin to maintain a list of books that I want on a ereader. I'm not entirely sure what else the plugin can do, but that's what I do with it.
As there are dozens of ways of manipulating tags, including adding them on important, having Reading List read the tags to figure out the lists would allow all sort of ways for other thing to manipulate the lists.
Include my example of putting every newly imported book on a specific list. (Via Calibre automatically giving them tags on import.)
Another example: The Goodreads plugin can add and remove tags based on what shelf a book is on. If the Reading List plugin does what I ask, tada, you can make a magical list for every shelf at Goodreads. Then in Goodreads, you could mark a book as 'currently reading' and having it magically on your ereader, then marking it 'read' it, which puts it on another list that gets it removed.
Of course, I'm not saying every list should work this way, but, luckily, lists are already individually configurable with regard to tags. Each just needs a checkbox that says 'Allow adding this tag to put it on the list, and removing this tag take it off' or something like that.
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