my LibraryThing 864 update

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=rakerman

Books cataloged 864

Books reviewed 94 — see reviews

This is pretty much all of my books in Ottawa, except for the textbooks and programming books.  I still have a fair number at my parents, assuming they haven't been given away etc.

There is still lots of work to do to completely reconcile my master Delicious Library catalogue with LibraryThing, to fix incorrect metadata like titles and authors, and to do all the missing or incorrect cover images.  Also I have some more reviews to input.

I thought I had more books than this actually.

What have I learned?
Old books have no ISBN.  Old paperbacks often don't have a useful barcode.  A lot of my books are old (am I stuck in the 80s?)  I've given away a lot more books than I thought I had.  I am terrible at reading books people give me as gifts.  There are still lots of metadata issues in our modern world.

(UPDATE 2006-07-25: It also turns out I have a lot more duplicate copies of books than I thought.)

Fun stats (note: a lot of these dates are wrong.  I have a lot more books from the 1950s and 1960s than indicated)

Dates

Average date: 1991

2000-Present	194
1990-1999	246
1980-1989	350
1970-1979	43
1960-1969	4
1950-1959	2
1900-1949	2
No date	23