[Feature] Ability to display custom tags on book covers

[Bro0528]

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What's Your Idea?

Add the ability to display custom tags on book covers, similar to how the number of books in a series and a book’s position in the series are currently shown.

Why Would This Be Helpful?

To allow assigning a visible tag/label without needing to open Book info. This would make it possible to show important labels directly on the cover. For example, I use specific tags for short stories and novellas so as not to confuse them with full-length novels, but I don’t always remember which is which without diving into the details.

Anything Else? (Optional)

Implementation ideas:
A) It could be implemented without changing the UI: if a tag should be displayed on the cover, give it a special format, e.g., [Custom_tag].
Drawback: Not very intuitive for users.

B) Add a global setting to enable/disable displaying all tags on covers.
Drawback: Less customization.

C) Separate tag management with settings for displaying tags on covers and choosing background colors.
Drawback: Requires creating a dedicated tags section.

Want to Help Out?

Just sharing the idea for now

[IsaacSmoothbrain]

I could see this working, but I feel like covers could get really crowded even just with this and with a series number.

[red-co]

The tag does not need to be on the cover; it should be a field that can be used for advanced queries.