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Originally Posted by sjfan
1. Figure out a set of tags that you want to use. I have a pretty minimal set (Fiction, Nonfiction, Cooking, Computing, Biography/Autobiography, Art, History, Craft, Writing, Drama, Mythology, Manual, Journal/Paper, Short Stories, Poetry, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Alternate History, Young Adult, Children, maybe a few more) because I find that more useful than super-specific tags as far as searching goes. If you have, say, a huge collection of Science Fiction then maybe you want to split that into a few more categories (Cyberpunk, Space Opera, etc) depending on what your needs are, or maybe you need History - American, History - European, etc. Think about it and decide how you want to structure things.
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One variation of this is to use hierarchical tags. So using the examples above, you might have Science Fiction.Cyberpunk, Science Fiction.Space Opera, History.American, History.European, etc.
You could then use the tag browser to find all Cyberpunk books, but you could also use it to find all Science Fiction books, without needing a separate Science Fiction tag. The tag browser can filter at any level of the hierarchy. Categorizing like this would also help reduce the time searching the tag browser even if you keep most of your existing tags.
Another suggestion when normalizing your tags is to create a dummy book and give it all the tags you want to keep. It's most useful when adding tags to new books, but it can also be used as a reference when renaming and deleting tags. After you're done you could delete the book, or keep it around for future reference.