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Originally Posted by Shades67
Before SHTF yesterday I was enjoying playing with the Calibre program. I think I am an organizer sorter at heart. I think I am working to condense tags to major ones mystery adventure and so on. I do not need 10 tags for each book. I do like being about to read about the book before opening it.
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How many tags you need depends on the size of your library and the nature of the book.
I have a broad range of interests, and thousands of eBooks in my Calibre library. Top level classifications, like Art, History, or Science are simply too broad. Finer distinctions are needed.
If I want to refer to a volume that talks about someone like Renoir as a painter, the tags that will identify a volume that might contain that will be Art, Art History, France, and Impressionism. Simply putting Art in a Calibre search box will yield
many books with no connection to the topic.
After you have added eBooks to the Calibre library, Edit Metadata on a volume will tell Calibre to search Google and Amazon for metadata till fill in the blanks, and get publisher supplied tags and descriptions to apply to the book. (Plugins available for Calibre will expand the sources of metadata it will search beyond those vendors.)
I occasionally get books that don't have publisher supplied tags, and often add finer descriptors on some that do, but in most cases, the work has been done for you. It's a side effect of the increasing shift of bookselling to online. Book discovery comes from a search query, not a look at the shelves in a store.
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Dennis