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If I am looking at book descriptions on a store or library website, I want the book to be tagged for as many possible genres as apply. If it's a book that combines of mystery, romance, paranormal, horror, whatever, tag it with all of them. Then a potential reader can rule it out if they don't like one of those genres.
I prefer books set in the real world, so if a book has any elements of paranormal/fantasy/etc. I want it to be tagged as such so I can avoid it. (Not that I think there's anything wrong with such books, they just aren't my cup of tea.)
For example, I once checked out an Overdrive book that was described as a mystery featuring a police detective and was tagged as mystery, and I was really frustrated when it turned out that the killer was some ancient supernatural entity. The book really should have had a tag to indicate paranormal or horror or some such thing, not just a mystery tag.
I expect JSWolf has been similarly burned by books that should have had a romance tag, hence his frustration with search results.
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