Personally, I have a few very basic rules for myself when tagging my library, but I don't follow any particular set of guidelines or cataloging standards. The Library of Congress maintains several, including some specifically for children's and young adult literature. If you are looking for standardized keywords (or "subject headings" as the Library of Congress calls them) for tagging, there are an infinite number of sources you can check out, but most of those are likely to be targeted towards scholarly/non-fiction works. Organizing my Calibre library is an ongoing hobby that I find deeply soothing. I am a librarian with cataloging and metadata management experienced- and apparently I like to bring work home with me. It's great, just more looking about tagging and categorizing "philosophy" if there is such a thing. Note: Just to be clear, I'm perfectly happy with the calibre tag editor and handling. I'm curious if there is such a thing as a commonly used tagging system for book libraries, or maybe I'm overthinking this? I've been googling things like "tagging system", "genre tag best practices" etc. I would like my tags to be useful, relevant, and manageable. I'm considering just using the editor to nuke all of those and save myself the headache. And half of what's left are only used on 2 books. I've gotten that down to 460 but that's still a huge number of distinct tags. I've been using the tag editor to sort through that, cleaning up duplicates, "combined" tags, redundant tags, misspelled tags, etc. I started with over 800 unique tags in my system. I recently decided to start keeping it better organized and part of that is cleaning up the tags. I have a library with about 2600 books (which I thought was large, but apparently is not). This is more of a meta question than a Calibre specific question, but because organizing my library is what made me ask, I figured this sub would be a good place to start.
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