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Okay, I just got the update and want to thank all in development for bringing the new feature in tags to life. With compliments now said, let me say that I dislike very much the way of displaying tags which seems to be displaying them in their own paragraph below the verse that is tagged prefixed by the word "Tags:". Sorry if my discussion gets long, but I wish to explain my points since we don't really have a face-to-face.

1. No way to "undisplay" tags. This is very inconsistent with the rest of the app. References/footnotes/links are displayed as an alternative highlight in what I will call, "normal reading" mode. Notes appear as icons. You must take some action to go out of normal reading mode and view the additional information. Not so with tags. They are always there to break up your reading. Right there, in your face, stop what your doing and meditate on the tags. Great when I pass my scriptures on to someone else who may not be familiar with electronic notations and now thinks I have one weird Bible. No, I am not kidding. I just checked preferences for a display option and started tapping on a tag to make it disappear; no such option.

2. Tags at the bottom of the verse tagged. Again, not like Notes. I don't have an iPad and so the verse that I am reading many times is not fully visible so I don't see the tag until I am half way through or done reading the verse. It should be at the top of the verse tagged near the control that allows tagging and not at the bottom. Tags, like notes, should say, "the verse you are about to read is about the pre-existence," not "hey the verse you just read was about the pre-existence, did you catch it?". Tags at the bottom of the verse make even less sense in many of my use cases where I highlight a number of verses that illustrate a concept or an idea and then tag the top verse. Now I have this beautiful tag right smack in the middle of a section I want to keep "together".

Those are my two big issues with the new tags feature.

I realize I was the one clamoring for a feature, so I sound like a whiney, ungrateful child, but I hope you can understand the reasoning behind my issues. I am sure there was some reasoning for the way you implemented, but I feel it is just not implemented well or completely.