Comment 2 for bug 1878308

Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my description.

I think the real usefulness of this is for removing a specific tag from MULTPLE selected items. Pressing F2 only allows you to edit one book's tags (and you have to find the specific one and delete it), while right-click is slightly faster but again only works for one item.

The use case for this feature is the exact same as it is for the existing functionality to add a tag to multiple items by selecting them and dragging to the Tag Browser - you could do it through the bulk metadata editor, but it is faster/easier/more flexible to drag them. And, similar to the existing functionality, if you happen to select a book that doesn't have the tag, it would just be ignored. This is simply an inversion of that wonderful feature.

An example of how this is useful is when I have selected a tag to filter the library and some/many of the resulting items should not have that tag, but the tag itself is desired. I have thousands of books with thousands of tags and going book by book, tag by tag, is extremely slow. It is, of course, my fault for not managing this from the start and accepting all of the downloaded tags, but it's the situation I (and surely many other people) am in and would love for it to be more efficient to fix this mess.

As for discoverability, maybe a tooltip or just leave it in the user manual to be discovered, like so many of the other wonderful, but unknown/hard to find features? Yet, if this is an arduous tweak to make, perhaps adding some functionality to remove a tag from multiple books via right-click would be a decent compromise?

Thanks for the consideration!