[Rellwood]

I wanted to know about the feature that indicates that you can change a tag in the browser. I have heirarchal tags so I can easily find books in the library. What I don't like is the actual tags themselves. I like the actual tags to be kind of simple. Instead of a tas being:

Genre.Science Fiction.Speculative Fiction.Apocalypse
Genre.Science Fiction.Speculative Fiction.Steampunk
Genre.Science Fiction.Space Opera
Characters.SF.Aliens

I want to see the simple versions in the actual book records.

Apocalypse, Steampunk, Space Opera, Aliens

I like the clean simple tags for the catalogs and the book records, but I need the heirarchal to keep the browser easy for searches. Since I have a ton of tags, and genres, and Goodreads Bookshelves, I need those heriarchal tags in the browser. Also, it gets kind of complicated when trying to figure if a New Adult Romance book is tagged Genre.Fiction.New Adult.Romance, or New Adult.Romance, or Romance.New Adult. If I don't make them all standardized, I can have multiple tags for New Adult Romance, when I just want one.

So, I was noticing that when I edit a tag in the browser there is an option to change the tag, or the tag in the virtual library. I wanted to know if this option means what it generally sounds like, changing the tag in the browser doesn't affect the tag in the records. If this is true, then is there an easier way to go about changing all those tags without having to go individually in the browser? Like managing tags? Is there a way of importing a .csv list with the old tag,and how I want the tag shown in the browser, and how I want the tag to be used in the records?

Some advice or clarification please? I need to clean up those tags. I tried using the CALM plugin, but I have run into difficulties that aren't really suitable for listing on this thread.

My goal is to have simple actual tags, but nice heirarchal tags in the browser for searches. I don't need Science Fiction, Space Opera, Alien Invasion, Speculative Fiction and Steampunk to be listed all over the browser, when they can be compressed and make searches easier.