Adding Tags to books

How do I add tags to my books? When I look at the book, it looks like there are multiple tags listed (I did not add any), but when I look at my stats, it shows that almost all of my books do not have tags. I was hoping that there is an easy way to add the tags. Thanks.

You can do it from the edit page or on the Your Books page. To get to the edit page for a book, click on the pencil icon at the right side of the book's entry on the Your Books page. To edit it on the Your Books page you need to go to a style, one of the letters at the top, that has tags as a column and double-click on the column. You can also change the columns for each style by using the Settings button at the top of the page.

You can also add tags from the main page of your books. Look for the module that says "Your book information". You'll see a section for Tags with an edit link. Just click there and add tags without even leaving the page.

>1 QGMDLibrary:
Welcome...

There are many places to add tags here; as well as those two mentioned above you can add tags right from the 'add books' page too - before you search for the book there is a 'tags to add' box right under the search box, or once you have found the book if you click the 'show quick edit' you can add, edit, fix tags to the book.
Otherwise in your edit book page or in your catalogue - if you have tags as a column.

Easy peasy...

The tags you mention on the main book page are the tags other people have added to that book. In your catalogue or in the your book information box you will see your tags for the book (once you have added some).

>1 QGMDLibrary: Here are a couple of Help Thing pages for your viewing pleasure:

http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/HelpThing:Tag
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/HelpThing:Your_books/Tags

it would be great it i could just tick a box to assign the tags other members have already suggested, and then just edit afterwards if needed as it would save a lot of typing.
is this possible???

>7 CronullaPreschool: That's one thing that's not going to happen. The owner/creator of LT believes that pushing people to come up with their own tags will improve the quality of the tags.

There's a 'tag auto-complete' feature (at least I think it's on LT and not just on my browser) where when you have used a tag once you just have to type three letters from it and you'll be presented with a drop-down of related tags to chose from. I find this incredibly convenient.

Can I create my own tag?

Of course. I have plenty of tags that nobody else has used.

>10 TheBookRoom: Just type it :) The tags here are not predefined and do not function as a list of things to chose from. If you want to create tag "where did I find this?" or "how this got published?", more power to you :)