Managing Tags

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by compurandom

Tags are not really per library. They're per book. The library only knows about tags because it has books in it that have them.

If your tags are a mess, especially from imported books, I'd suggest ignoring the default tags column (mostly) and make a new custom one. Then in the new custom tags column, you can carefully populate it, possibly by doing searches on the default tags column and then using bulk edit to add the custom tags.

I suggest you clean the tags column as you load books to your library. Then you can use the tags column.

[capink]

Have a look at tag management in example no. 8 in this post and see whether it help in solving some of your problems.

[compurandom]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I suggest you clean the tags column as you load books to your library. Then you can use the tags column.

We've had this argument before. If I use my own column, I don't have to clean the tags column, and I don't lose info that the book publisher put there.

I didn't originate the idea of making a custom tags column. Someone more clever than me suggested that for this purpose, and I've found it to work better after having tried it the other way for a year.