Hey! Thanks for your response!
Reading my original question is even making me confused....I was quite tired when I wrote it.
I read through the plugin thread. I didn't see anything that seemed to help, most of those posts are about people wanting fewer tags haha.
The book is here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36615592-ryan-s-bed
I'm not looking to sync
my goodreads shelves to calibre, I dont use GR to manage books at all, I just want their metadata.
I want to sync the shelves to calibre.
As an example, I want to download 'suicide' as a tag.
These are my settings:
And this is what I get as a result
I am not sure if it an incorrect plugin setting or something to do with calibre itself. In hindsight I should have asked in the plugin forum but oh well.
I believe my problem may be that the more specific shelves like 'suicide' are user created and not a gr shelf and that this is why the plugin isn't receiving them.
Or maybe my mapping is wrong. I have essentially 0 experience with that sort of thing so that's certainly probable.
I hope this clears up what my goal is. If you're still confused, let me know and thanks again for your time and help.