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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Users of private collections are typically more interested in reading than in cataloging  They need a tool that allows them to get a certain minimum amount of metadata reasonabl correct, with as little effort as possible. Librarians on the other hand, never actually read all their books, they spend their time making sure all the metadata associated with each book is correct. |
I would say that all people I now that have book collections are very interested in cataloging it. They are interested in books and in reading and in the history of the genre they are reading and so on and they read in this context.