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Old 05-12-2012, 09:55 PM   #143
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By the way, I hate "tagging." Any system that allows anybody to add tags becomes so polluted with duplicates—not to mention the sheer numbers of obscure, barely related (if not downright irrelevant) topics—that every title starts getting included in every search. It all starts to become relevant to everything. Which in my eyes, is no different than being relevant to nothing. I especially despise it when my ebooks come pre-tagged (in their metadata)... how presumptuous.
Ideally there would be two sets of tags...

1) By the "book expert(s)" at the seller where they pick a handful of good tags for the book. Kind of like B&N picking what shelf to put the book on.
2) One open ended one for readers to pick what they want.

If you could limit your search to one or both of them, that would I think be so many lightyears ahead of the outdated category based system that it would be worth any hassle it took to get it.
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