True. It takes this sort of effort to build a good database with users’ input, and plenty of patience. And Bookwyrm does seem to deserve that effort, unlike… some of the competition.

(Late reply, but whatever.)

This is kind of why I never really used BookWyrm. I tried it out, realised I have to add like half of the books I’ve ever read (and many that I have read have shoddy or incomplete metadata), and left. Now I stick to writing down everything into an excel (actually LibreOffice) table. Any fields that I need, I can add at any point. Now, it is a bit more complicated to set up at first (deciding what data is relevant to you, entering it all into the table), but in the long run I find it a much better option than any online service.

At least we won’t have any dang countries forcing time zones there to be in odd shapes.

Ehhhh, if you have expertise in ANY field outside of like programming, you can easily test various models and see that they produce a lot of crap. That doesn’t require you to understand how LLMs work exactly.