Originally Posted by buckethead 
I have been searching, but can not find an answer that seems to be authoritative on either side here. Does resaving the same jpg file a few times degrade the image? I am not doing any changes to the picture itself, just adding tags, etc to the file.
I tried this out years ago in Photoshop and yes, it would. It's not rocket science, just open any jpeg and resave it 10x and see for yourself. But then the jpeg quality setting does matter too.