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Old 01-05-2015, 08:36 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by sophieturgeon View Post
Hello,

OK I need help again! As I have mentioned in the past I have an extra=large library that I am trying to organize. I have been able to download the metadata for almost all of my books. Now I am trying to organize the tags. I don’t want to use any of the tags given by the publishers. They have too many for the same thing and they can be vague. I am currently doing this manually which is mad because I have thousands of books. The way things are going, I’ll be a very old woman by the time I’m finished.

I am updating the tags based on the reading in the comment field in the metadata. I look for specific words; for example if the words “murder” “killer” “killed” “murderer” or a question mark appear in the comments field, I will tag the book “suspense/mystery”.

I am no programmer, never was. But I have created enough simple macros in excel to know something like that is possible. I remember creating some kind of look up tables with “if” formulas. That was over 7 years ago, so I don’t remember much from those days.

That I know of, no plugins like that has been written yet. Can you tell me where I might find the very simple written instructions, or a video or something? I have a lot of difficulty understanding the info and terms used in the calibre help site: For someone like me, it is like reading a foreign language. I look forward to any suggestions you might have. Thanks again!
It will still be tedious to Tag/retag.

in Calibre
search comments:<your magic words for your books to get A tag
Select All <results>:tap 'E' (bulk meta edit): Add Tag <your tag>

another idea for the existing tag mess
In the Tag Browser: Tags section: Right click: (here you can rename (to consolidate) or simply delete those garbage tags eg. Science Fiction, Fiction
<rant> <can SF or Fantasy be non-fiction?? Many tags are a holdover from those 3x5 card catalog days </rant>
Another thing to think about is hierarchical tags
Science Fiction.Military vs Science Fiction-Military

The former can easily return results for both cases: SF or SF.Military
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