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Originally Posted by library addict
I am D-O-N-E with the Great Date Callibre Project of Doom 
I had a number of books I know I read back when I first purchased them in print that I had to guestimate dates for, but percentage wise it wasn't that many. I have read over 5000 books since 1989. (Not counting rereads). That total includes non-fiction. Not sure why I had started to keep track of the number of books I read every month, but I'm glad I kept it up over the years.
So now I have completed all of my wishlist projects (some of which I never even knew I wanted to do  ). I have my Warehouse library with the name of the store(s) I purchased all of my books from with the untouched original versions of my books in case I ever need them. And my main Calibre library and the Vault library. My plan now is to always import new books to the Warehouse, clean-up the metadata as needed and then copy to either the main library or Vault. The only exception would be if it's a website freebie story (like Nalini Singh's slice-of-life newsletter stories or if an author posts an epilogue or deleted scenes on their wesbite of something) which I make an ePub from would go directly to the main library since they aren't from a store. I didn't add the various Silhouette/Harlequin on-line reads or the other Psy/Changeling short stories to the Warehouse either.
I know there are some books which I will probably clean-up in Edit Book when/if I reread them. But having done all of the Samhain titles, there are none I know have major issues.
My various library overhauls have taught me a lot. So even though they've been time consuming I am glad I've undertaken them all. But I'm ready to just be in maintenance mode and spend my time actually reading 
Of course, I have to finish my taxes before I can start a new book, but I'm putting that off until tomorrow. (They're done, I just need to proof them. I'm not quite that bad of a procrastinator  )
I also dusted and rearranged all of my book shelves yesterday. Even though I'm not reading much in print nowadays, I still have my keepers. I should probably cull my print TBR pile since it keeps falling over when the dog bumps it, but that's a project for another day. |
Youmust be thrilled! Your project was much more herculean a task than mine, but I did finish just now. I got rid of over 2000 books!
I've learned so many valuable lessons about grabbing
everything free [won't do it again], and now I've started tagging new authors/freebies with a year and freebie tag so hopefully once or twice a year I can do a 'spring clean' through those much easier from now on. I've also learnt not to buy a book without it having quite a few reviews. When I was buying 'everything' that sounded good that was on sale for $1, I've ended up with probably a couple hundred books that the ratings are now considerably lower than when the book first came out.
I'm staying pretty stringent with my buying too, not falling for covers, checking GoodReads, and not buying any more in the series until I've read or at least sampled a couple of chapters in the first book.
Now I can get on with real life and start reading more this week. With all this culling I've only read 2 books this week and I'm having serious withdrawals!
I also wanted to thank everyone who shared codes with me that enabled me to finish my Mom's library. You guys are the best and I'm so appreciative of all of you.
