Thread: Is there a Way to Simplify Tags
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Old 02-13-2018, 01:09 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by retiredbiker View Post
Publishers will put any old tag on a book, I guess hoping to get a hit in someone's search no matter what. One I remember is one of Doc E.E. Smith's Lensman books as "Contemporary Romance"--Really?
My personal favorite is when the books are tagged "book" or "ebook". I'm sure if I thought really hard about it, I could probably come up with a more useless tag than these, but nothing comes to mind at the moment.

That's why I consider this one of the most important rules of ebook management: Never trust someone else's metadata.

It's okay to download metadata, but always review it manually before calling it good. I try to clean up the metadata in batches as I add books to my library instead of waiting until I have 13k tags that need consolidating.
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