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(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.
I guess that's an option. My strategy now is to add thd book when I read it. Since I have the book in my hand, I have almost Every possible metadata about it. For book I've read a while ago, I add them when I think about it with just the name and the author. Sometime, I can find easily the ISBN and the cover so I add it as well but usually I don't try to get much metadata. The collection will build itself over time.
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.