I'm not sure what that was supposed to do, but maybe the hierachical tags I'm using is breaking it?
Also, these tags are cleaned 3 times before I get to using them.
First by the lovely tag wrangling team over at AO3 who link and merge related tags, then the FanFicFare's metadata cleaner I may have overdone. Here's some snippets of what I put in there:
Code:
#i don't care what AU is it in these columns, that's what freeform tags are for
ships,characters,category=>[aA]lternate [uU]niverse(.*)=>Alternate Universe
#precision cleanup a.k.a. ffs portmanteaux are fun except in tagging
...
#yes we get it's a ship cleanup
ships=>(\s*)(\(|)(\s*)(-|)(\s*)[eE]stablished(\s*)(\)|)=>
ships=>(\s*)(\(|)(\s*)(-|)(\s*)[Rr]elationship(\s*)(\)|)=>
ships=>(.*)(\s*)(\(|)(\s*)(-|)(\s*)[mM]ention(.*)(\s*)(\)|)$=>
ships=>[Pp]re(-|)=>
Then a third time when I shuttle every tag into a backup column and put only the Fandom and the ship column into the "Tag" column, with hiearchical tags, Fandom.fandomname and Ship.a/b.
The tags I want to hide are tiny ships and tiny fandoms. Obviously, there are going to be a lot of side ships and crossover fandoms that are technically relevant to the book in question, and I don't want to remove this info, but I don't actually want to filter/browse on when choosing what to read or what to put on my phone for later reading. The reason they are in the tags column in the first place is so that the tags are transferred to my phone properly.
I'll guess I'll create yet another custom column where I use the tag manager to manually delete every tag under like 3 items to use to filter; bringing up the number of custom columns I have to a nice round 20.
I... may have a minor obsessive streak regarding the proper way of keeping book info.
Thanks for the advice though
