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Old 05-03-2023, 12:35 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by ownedbycats View Post
The science fiction section in my Calibre library is getting just big enough that it'd be a help to split it up a bit.

So I've been going through my books and checking how the books are listed on goodreads and I realized that I'm not really sure how to define these, and there's a lot of overlap (e.g. post-apocalypse and dystopian, or military sci-fi and alien invasion). Also the people who add genres on Goodreads slapping 'space opera' on pretty much everything.

Is this kind of a pointless endeavor?
Don't forget, it's your library. Looking at Goodreads or something might help I guess. But I only use tags in Calibre that make sense to me. And don't be afraid to make up tags to suit your needs.

I mostly stick to major categories: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and I label most general fiction as Literary, because I just wanted to have something to call it.

I like nautical tales. So I label anything from Jaws to The Ghost from the Grand Banks to Something's Alive on the Titanic as Underwater in addition to whatever genre tags I assign.
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