[Terisa de morgan]

I'll give my ideas about some of your comments:

Originally Posted by TheMadGuy

The field with the tags could be filled endless. But in my opinion it might become much easier with two additional fields in the mask:
1. Type (Novel, Short Stories, Textbook, Biography....)
2. Genre (Crime, Fantasy, Horror)
As those "tags" are - or at least should be - part of the metadata of every book, it would make handling the database much easier. Especially as I could see much easier what terms are allready part of that list.

If you like in that way, you can create two additional columns which meet your needs (I have already create my genre column, with no relationship to your definition).

Originally Posted by TheMadGuy

I am sure that most of you might agree that so often the tags are filled with several different (mis-)spellings of the same term and sometimes in that field there is half of a novel!


I know it's a lot I am asking for, but the tags could also be modified at least to reduce their different "versions". Is it an idea to make a tag one word automatically? That means: If I enter a tag and press space, then automatically a semikolon appears and makes sure that the next word is a new tag?
This idea started when I tried to organize the tags for the first time - and comes up again whenever I add new books. Different tags have to be separated with semikolons, and if it's only one word for a tag (no change possible), things like this can't happen anymore. That's just an example of tags:
Book 1: medicine thriller; novel
Book 2: medicine-thriller; novel
Book 3: medicine, thriller, novel
Book 4: medince; thrilller; novel
Book 5: medicinethriller; novel
.....

I have all my standard tags associated to a "fake" book, and I choose between them. So, I begin to type the tag and I choose between the offered words.

Originally Posted by TheMadGuy

Finally I'd appreciate a field I'd like to call "subtitle"
It could (not sure if it will) make it easier to avoid or at least find duplicates. There are so many books with a subtitle on the front page. (This title now is just fiction) Title: Summer Rain - Subtitle: The Dream of the Geese
So one enters that "Title - Subtitle", the next one "Title: Subtitle" and possibly the third one "Title (Subtitle)"
The versatility of that possibilities so often makes it anywhere between difficult and nearly impossible to care about the data as perfect as possible.

Tell me your opinion about one or more of my ideas for modifications or how you handle the problems I have caring about my data.

Thanks for support!

You can create a text custom column, named "subtitle", to include that information. It's quite easy, really. You won't be able to populate it from the metadata download, but I it's the only limitation I can think of.