#Nah.

* Length

  We have run into this problem several times, with tags such as [tag:constellation-vital-phen] (instead of [tag:constellation-of-vital-phenomena], and [tag:zen-and-art-of-mc-maint] (instead of [tag:Zen-and-the-art-of-Motorcycle-Maintenance]), and will doubtless run into it again.  
It's not possible to shorten every title like this - nobody will know what tag to use. 

* Duplication

  Lots of books have the same title as another. Let's take an example tag,  [tag:storm]. What would this refer to? [This book](https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00GSWF888/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496676482&sr=1-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=storm&dpPl=1&dpID=51tTSs4iZwL&ref=plSrch)? [This book](https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01MYEN77O/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1496676482&sr=1-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=storm&dpPl=1&dpID=51j1p5RDpwL&ref=plSrch)? [This one](https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0451201906/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496676681&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=storm+boris+starling&dpPl=1&dpID=51YPZA3141L&ref=plSrch)?  
I suggested in the comments that we could add years of publication - e.g. [tag:storm-2011]. But @Gilles raised some valid points - when would we know to add the year from the start? What if more than one book with the same name gets published in a year? This would also exacerbate issues with the tag length. Also, what about a series? What date would we go by? 

* New users

  What happens when a new user comes and tries to ask a question about a book that there's no tag for? *Doggone it, I can't ask this because I can't create the tag [tag:walk-two-moons] without 125 imaginary Internet points! Stupid site! I'm not posting anything here.*  ...and that's not so good for attracting new users. We should be trying to make the experience as pleasant as possible,  for *all* users. 

* Different names

  Some books have more than one name they are referred to by. E.g. *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone* (yeah, I know that's included in [tag:harry-potter] - it's just an example), or a book that has a different name for different editions. What would we tag it?  
We *could* set up a synonym, but then how would we decide what the master tag is? Which name takes precedence?

* Other languages

  Let's say that I ask a question about a book that's only available in Hebrew. Good, that helps the variety problem. But uh-oh - how do I tag this? Tags don't support Hebrew characters, there's no official translation of the title in English, and it could be translated different ways. Transliteration? Hah. Transliteration is very subjective - just take a look at all of the different ways things are spelled on [Mi Yodeya](https://mi.yodeya.com). One word - שבת - can be transliterated many different ways: Shabbat,  Shabat, Shabbos, Sabbath... There are more. Point is, transliteration isn't going to work.

SE also has a tag limit that you run into eventually, although I highly doubt that we'll encounter that any time in the next five years even with title tags.