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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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
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Thank you. Very valid points Dennis. I remember seeing the magical number of 1250 books in my Library so not as many as most here. Guess I should leave more tags. What was frustrating me was later finding them in so many different tag places. I know this is the whole point. I read mostly simple stupid to calm my brain right now. I have interests in herbal treatments and art, self help for coping. Decor, mystery, adventure. I am not a very deep reader and with so many free books if it does not grab me in the first two chapters it is gone. Too many really good books out there. I am listening to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and reading a mystery/action right now well not this minute. One in my studio listening and one reading in bed to go to sleep.
Today it is pouring down rain. Woo Hoo. So happy for the rain and also I spent a couple hours after dinner working in the yard instead of putting it off for today. I am hoping to get more meta data for my books in Calibre. I did manage to get all my books there. On my laptop. Need to figure how to save this externally just in case my computer goes for the big crash. I saw some thing about importing/exporting Need to explore more on this. I have the Calibre forum marked. I just need time to play more with it. A few must do projects then play time for me.
Chris