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Originally Posted by GRiker
When you have more tags than books, that's a strong indicator that you need to do some tag management.
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I have "download social metadata" turned on and allow all tags to come in. I like having the tags, but I'm not willing to do the manual work, with each book, necessary to get them into shape. My library is too big. Fortunately I don't have a reader that uses tags to create collections and I have no real need for the catalogs, so the "mess" in my tags is not a particular problem at this point. They are useful during searching, however, despite their disorganized state.
It may become a problem later, depending on whether I purchase an e-reader of some type.
Most of your comments on managing tags as they come in are valid, but it is difficult to remember that you already have a tag for
Biography & Autobiography when you see a tag for
Biography And Autobiography. I understand why people often turn off the automatic tags. It's not that they aren't useful, it's that they are too variable and too much trouble to manage properly.
What I'm thinking about is some sort of improved tag management capability. I'd like to be able to merge tags the way I can currently merge e-book records. Instead of trying to deal with tags for each book, I'd like to be able to select multiple tags and then condense them into a single tag.