Hey Paw ... I'd never tear my hair out!! I'd much prefer to continuously bang my head on the wall. Every morning I count each productive follicle .. and at the moment it is "steady as she goes".
Paw, you are however right that on listings if you look at page numbers it is apparent when there are pages missing. At the moment I have been cleaning up the names, to make everything less cluttered, that included removing words like incomplete, (inc), inc etc.
But the plan is, books that are cataloged by GCD have the number of pages in a field ... so by comparing our # of pages to what GCD says we can deduce ones with missing pages. But I would also like to show that books are fiche, part fiche and digital camera. At the moment these are still in the name ... but I am thinking about some sort of icon system.
And again you are right ... I was thinking about this very point today. Everyday things are becoming more complete. So that is where the main effort should go, and not in dealing with items that will go and covering holes that will be eventually be filled. Years of work left!