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Originally Posted by DNSB
You could end up like one friend of mine who was enthused about using tags in calibre. When she picked up an Aura H2O, she used those tags to create collections. At one point, she had ~800 books on her H2O and ~1700 collections. A book could be found in romance, paranormal romance, vampire, werewolf, etc. At that point, she spent about 2 weeks adding a genre column to generate collections which reduced her collections to ~40.
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And that is the reason I don't use tags! As somebody mentioned up-thread, any tags imported into Calibre get deleted and replaced by my tags.
I have 40 shelves (genres) on the Forma (it's expanded over the years as my collections have expanded). Some have only a handful of books, others a couple of hundred. I tend to think about splitting collections when I get to 400-500 titles.
Most of my books are single-shelf; there are 2 meta-collections: 'Short or Anthology', and 'LTER'. The latter are from the LibraryThing Early Reviewer giveaways, the former are my usual commuting read. Both are for specific reading purposes, and both contain multiple genres.