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Originally Posted by GRiker
To remove some tags from selected books: - Select the books marked with the tag you wish to remove
- Click Edit meta information↓Edit metadata in bulk (or press 'E')
- In the Remove tags field, enter the tag(s) to remove
- Swell foop accomplished
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"Enter the tag(s) to remove" is the problem: no two of the books will have the same set of tags. For instance, "Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat" gets tagged with:
Swift
Tom (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction
Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction
Boats and boating -- Juvenile fiction
(yes, the first two are supposed to be one, but the tag system latches onto the comma)
...whereas "Tom Swift and His Airship" has:
Swift
Tom (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction
Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction
Airships -- Juvenile fiction
Even with only one difference between them, multiply that by 50 or 100 books, with 3 or 4 tags each (sometimes with differences in spelling or formatting) -- and it becomes a major pain. The problem with the bulk edit (which is what I've been using) is that I need to already know what tags are on the books in order to remove them, because it's removing specific tags; there is no
general tag removal, which is what I need to clean up PG's overly verbose and variable tags.
Hence the need for a function to remove
all tags from a selected group of books, rather than having to type in each possible tag individually.
(and removing the tags from the database only seems to affect the particular book I'm editing; other books are still listed with that tag)