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[alexseanchai]

My LibraryThing says I have six books that weigh in excess of six pounds. Clearly one of those books is Books Georg, at ten thousand nine hundred pounds. But I detect no way to not count Books Georg here, or even to discern which record in my catalog is Books Georg—and there might be five more statistical outliers here!

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[fred_mouse]

\o/

It is so weird to have had such numbers in there at all, but very satisfying to have dealt with them. I've identified rather a lot where the measurements are in the wrong order (basically, I have ~125 books with a thickness greater than some value, which might be 3cm, might be 5cm - not going back to it now, because I should have gone to bed and hour ago, and I'm having too much fun with this) so I've turbo tagged them with 'fix dimensions' and I'll come back to them later.

[alexseanchai]

Yeah, I spotted a few of those too. I don't want to deal right now. I just wanted a ballpark figure for liberry weight. :)

[fred_mouse]

Makes sense. I was looking at the 'measurement in UHaul boxes' and wondering if that was what you were looking to measure.

[alexseanchai]

Yeah, that'd be nice, but if measurements are going in the wrong boxes then that number's probably useless till I review the whole library and all its records and NO I WON'T. You know?

[fred_mouse]

Yes. I went for just zeroing out the most egregious errors, and went from 2 elephants to about 1/3 of an elephant -- I figured that level of correction was sufficient, given that LibraryThing imputes 'average' values when they are missing