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by bayindirh 16 days ago
You can always get the missing data with a DOI, which is always present on the paper if it's recent enough.

I have tried filling some missing fields in my books list with help of an LLM, and none of the books were rare. I allowed it to search the internet and it hallucinated so bad that I nuked that version of the list and reverted all the changes.

It's more accurate with all the holes in the data.

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> I allowed it to search the internet and it hallucinated so bad that I nuked that version of the list and reverted all the changes.

Really? This does not reflect my experience at all. I've been using the Beaver plugin and also Claude Code, and they have been spot on.

Probably due to language barriers. The books were not written in English and not authored by authors living in English speaking countries. Mostly were non-fiction, too. Mostly history and neighboring genres.