I have begun the process of scanning and cataloging all of our physical books.

Things I’ve learned so far: Borders in the 90s really put shitty ass price stickers over every fucking barcode.

I have not sufficiently expressed my hatred for whoever did this.

How many books does it take before it can be counted as a library?

This mess is what 573 books (plus 5 I couldn’t find and about 30 high quality magazines and 20 or so academic journals) look like. More to go.

This is what 61 cookbooks looks like (along with other things).

Genre data on ISBN lookup data is atrocious. I’m going to have to edit a ton of this metadata. It’s really shocking how bad book data sources are at this point.

I bet I’d have a fun time seeing how a publisher stores all this information. And I’m sad Amazon has increasingly locked down its API.