1TeamRead
Hello!!
We have a catalog of books in our account. We've tagged our books with our own tags but are looking to have more comprehensive tags to describe the books. Is there an easy way to pull tags from the community to enter into our collection?
Example: Currently we tag our books with F&P level and genre either fiction or non-fiction. When you click on the book title, there's a lot of info on the book and tags that the community uses like historical fiction, asian history, black american, folktales and so on. Is there a way to pull these tags over to our collection of books or will it have to be manually entered in separately for each book in our collection?
Thank you for the help!
We have a catalog of books in our account. We've tagged our books with our own tags but are looking to have more comprehensive tags to describe the books. Is there an easy way to pull tags from the community to enter into our collection?
Example: Currently we tag our books with F&P level and genre either fiction or non-fiction. When you click on the book title, there's a lot of info on the book and tags that the community uses like historical fiction, asian history, black american, folktales and so on. Is there a way to pull these tags over to our collection of books or will it have to be manually entered in separately for each book in our collection?
Thank you for the help!
2norabelle414
>1 TeamRead: No, there is not a way to automatically add tags to your book that other people have used for the same work.
However, some features that might help you:
1) Power Edit (the lightning bolt button in your catalog) can be used to bulk-add the same tag or list of tags to a bunch of books at once
2) the Tag View in your catalog will show you all of the tags for all of your books, which can be helpful for finding duplicates and typos. You can also add a second tag to every book with a particular tag by editing that tag to include a second tag. (e.g. if you edited the tag "asian history" to say "asian history, history" then all books that were previously tagged "asian history" would now have the tag "history" as well)
However, some features that might help you:
1) Power Edit (the lightning bolt button in your catalog) can be used to bulk-add the same tag or list of tags to a bunch of books at once
2) the Tag View in your catalog will show you all of the tags for all of your books, which can be helpful for finding duplicates and typos. You can also add a second tag to every book with a particular tag by editing that tag to include a second tag. (e.g. if you edited the tag "asian history" to say "asian history, history" then all books that were previously tagged "asian history" would now have the tag "history" as well)
3paradoxosalpha
With a few thousand books in my catalog, I often find this procedure helpful for tagging:
1) A useful tag occurs to me. Hm, I'd like to have all my books involving fairies tagged thus.
2) I search (on "All fields") in my library for the term itself and some variants or related words and tag as needed.
3) I click on the tag in the bar showing the search to go to the tag page, and review the books that other people have tagged thus, looking for ones with check marks that will thus be part of my catalog. Tag as needed.
1) A useful tag occurs to me. Hm, I'd like to have all my books involving fairies tagged thus.
2) I search (on "All fields") in my library for the term itself and some variants or related words and tag as needed.
3) I click on the tag in the bar showing the search to go to the tag page, and review the books that other people have tagged thus, looking for ones with check marks that will thus be part of my catalog. Tag as needed.
4jjwilson61
The creator of this site wants to encourage people to use their own ideas for tagging. So, he decided not to have any features to make it easier to apply someone else's tags to your books
5Buchmerkur
>4 jjwilson61: I like that idea :-) and I enjoy the different approaches to bring order to chaos.
6bnielsen
>5 Buchmerkur: just came across the term "campus fiction", so that made me wonder if I had any ot that sort. There is always a new time sink somewhere here :-)
8bnielsen
Gaudy Night is on my shelf, so yes, that fits the bill. I was also thinking about some of Maria Langs books (one of them is about teachers on a high school, so maybe there's another term for that) and some Inspector Morse books. Maybe I can just search for Cambridge or Oxford :-)
9PawsforThought
Gaudy Night is so good! I wish I could read it again for the first time (I wish that of all the Wimsey books, of course)! I've been on the lookout for some similar types of books, but the first thing that pops up when I do searches is Donna Tartt's The Secret History and I detest that book.
And now I've fallen down the rabbit hole.
And now I've fallen down the rabbit hole.
10Petroglyph
>8 bnielsen:
You might enjoy Zadie Smith's On beauty. It's a bit of a loving spoof of the (sub)genre.
You might enjoy Zadie Smith's On beauty. It's a bit of a loving spoof of the (sub)genre.
11bnielsen
>10 Petroglyph:. Thanks! On my TBR list now. Looking in tag clouds for books already on my shelves: Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night, Alison Lurie: Love and Friendship, C. P. Snow: The masters, Fritz Leiber: Conjure Wife.
