Thread: Genres vs. Tags?
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Old 08-04-2011, 02:05 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by tweebee View Post
I was wondering the same thing also. I'm new to Calibre and coming from another book management program that uses tags, I am wondering what the benefits would be in using Genre vs tags. The one thing that stood out for me is the hierarchy with the sub-groups which you don't have with tags. So I am curious to know how you are using this Genre field.

Thanks!
Actually, you can have hierarchies with tags as well.

@nynaevelan: Is your custom Genre column populated automatically by the downloaded tags, or do you copy and paste manually?

Btw, do you guys use a more complex hierarchy such as a high-level separation of Fiction and Nonfiction? That's kinda nice, but it'd be a lot of typing!
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