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Originally Posted by Istvan diVega
Exactly why I only use my own tags. Quite frankly I think published ebooks are fairly often very strangely tagged too.
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Me too. I try to keep it to a few dozen of my own tags, total. Each book gets a tag of fiction or nonfiction, and then a tag with the genre, "history", "mystery" etc, and then if the author is not from an english speaking country, I'll put "scandinavia" on all my northern european thrillers, "Japan" on Murakami books, etc. That's as far as I prefer to go with tags.
One particular pet peeve of mine is when I download metadata and get the tag "general". Really? General what? If a tag is all-inclusive, why even bother?
A few brief thoughts on Calibre: I would be completely lost without it. I discovered it when I was thinking about buying a kindle in 2010. It was a revelation. It does what I need it to do: organize by books, convert when necessary, work as a conduit for Alf's tools, send books to devices, and that's about all I need. It does that beautifully. I prefer the low maintenance approach so I can spend my limited free time reading (or, you know, subjecting you all to useless rambling posts on this forum
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I have no problems with the GUI, I had no idea people thought it so ugly and 90's looking. I don't think it's bad at all.