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Originally Posted by retiredbiker
I find it best, for me, to have very simple tags, mostly one word, or two at most, so I have "Hard" as a tag rather than "Hard Science Fiction". The reason is, you can concatenate the simple tags with searches or virtual libraries in any arbitrary way, without having to set it up beforehand. You can find complex combinations you would never think of until you want them. Mystery stories that are also scifi, in the future, but not murder mysteries? No problem.
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This is very much how I deal with tags. Almost all my tags are single words. For example, one book might be tagged: Romance, Fiction, Historical, Regency, England, Unread, Duke and another might be: Mystery, Fiction, Read, Science Fiction, Space, Read in 2018, Aliens, First Contact
I kind of feel like it gives me a lot of options when I search by tags. I might be wrong, but it seems like it really lets me drill down to specifics and get smaller groups of books back when I do search.
I manually tag every book (either individually or with bulk edit) and have tags turned off in the metadata download options. I just don't want anyone else's tags there. They aren't that helpful to me most of the time.