Custom columns vs tags

Artha · 11-19-2011, 09:09 AM

For book genres probably the tags are better, but how about something like read? Which is the impact of each?

gweminence · 11-19-2011, 05:19 PM

Impact? That seems pretty subjective to me.

I do exactly what you said: use tags for genre, and a custom column for Read yes/no

Starson17 · 11-20-2011, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Artha

For book genres probably the tags are better, but how about something like read? Which is the impact of each?

I find it a bit easier to manually set custom columns in the GUI than to set tags by calling up the metadata editor. That's partly a byproduct of the fact that I keep all tags when doing a metadata download, something that many others here don't like to do. As a result, I use a custom column for both read (by initials of the name of the person who read it) and for genre, where I strictly limit my genres to a known subset.

Artha · 11-22-2011, 09:25 AM

By impact I meant which might have a lesser influence on the sluggishness of Calibre. With one column I have eliminated quite a few tags, and too many tags do seem to be a problem. Too many authors too, sadly.

11-19-2011, 09:09 AM	#1
Artha ----- Posts: 114 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Samsung SNE65	Custom columns vs tags For book genres probably the tags are better, but how about something like read? Which is the impact of each?

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11-19-2011, 05:19 PM	#2
gweminence Fat Guy Posts: 408 Karma: 24165 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Kindle Voyage	Impact? That seems pretty subjective to me. I do exactly what you said: use tags for genre, and a custom column for Read yes/no

11-22-2011, 09:25 AM	#4
Artha ----- Posts: 114 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Samsung SNE65	By impact I meant which might have a lesser influence on the sluggishness of Calibre. With one column I have eliminated quite a few tags, and too many tags do seem to be a problem. Too many authors too, sadly.

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