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bhagerty · 08-31-2015, 10:16 AM

@BetterRed:

(1) Sarcasm is unfriendly. And in this case, totally uncalled for. I asked a good-faith question, followed some advice, thanked folks for their advice, and followed up with a good-faith suggestion.

(2) On top of which, it seems that you are being willfully obtuse, just to create an occasion for your sarcasm. I'm glad there's a command-line option for listing categories, and I appreciate your pointing it out. But it's quite obvious that I was talking about having an option to create a list of tags from within Calibre's GUI. (Indeed, I almost wrote "from within Calibre's GUI" in place of "in Calibre itself" in my last post, but I thought, "No need for that; surely it's obvious what I'm talking about.") Command-line tools are not perfect substitutes for GUI implementations, even if some folks (you—and, in fact, me) are comfortable with command-line tools.

So I will clarify my suggestion and stand by it: It would be nice if, within Calibre's GUI, there were a simple means to export a list of tags.

08-31-2015, 10:16 AM	#10
bhagerty Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2015 Device: Kindle + Android-based	@BetterRed: (1) Sarcasm is unfriendly. And in this case, totally uncalled for. I asked a good-faith question, followed some advice, thanked folks for their advice, and followed up with a good-faith suggestion. (2) On top of which, it seems that you are being willfully obtuse, just to create an occasion for your sarcasm. I'm glad there's a command-line option for listing categories, and I appreciate your pointing it out. But it's quite obvious that I was talking about having an option to create a list of tags from within Calibre's GUI. (Indeed, I almost wrote "from within Calibre's GUI" in place of "in Calibre itself" in my last post, but I thought, "No need for that; surely it's obvious what I'm talking about.") Command-line tools are not perfect substitutes for GUI implementations, even if some folks (you—and, in fact, me) are comfortable with command-line tools. So I will clarify my suggestion and stand by it: It would be nice if, within Calibre's GUI, there were a simple means to export a list of tags.