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1jillrhudy
Feb 28, 2015, 5:00 pm

When-read dating woes, I mean. I'm happily married. A little history: I spent six happy years on Shelfari but Amazon left it to rot. I tried GR and DETESTED it. Animated kittens as #1 reviews. 'Nuff said. I now have issues from two sets of export-import. Many of my reviews say TRUE or FALSE(???) and a lot of my dates are messed up, with slashes instead of dashes.

Rooting around in threads here, I found the brilliant and belated suggestion that I edit the CSV in Excel and then import it (I have 1400 books and wasted 12 hours trying to clean up my GR shelves).

I don't intend to catalog my personal collection (I do enough cataloging at work) or distinguish it from books I've read. I'll never tag anything again; what a nightmare. I just want to keep track of my reading (when I finish reading stuff) and read and write reviews. Possibly join a group or two.

Anyway my question is: can I delete all my books, edit that cussed CSV spreadsheet, then upload them all again without getting another account? I do intend to get a paid membership if I get everything arranged and dated to my satisfaction.

2timspalding
Feb 28, 2015, 5:22 pm

Yes. Use PowerEdit (within Your Books, the lightning bolt icon) to select all your books, and delete them.

Then re-upload.

However, it may happen again. Maybe Goodreads' export format has changed and we're not importing it correctly. So if it doesn't work, let us know and email me (tim@librarything.com) a copy of your file.

3jillrhudy
Mar 1, 2015, 11:31 am

Um, aren't you like the CEO or something? Don't you have minions? Thanks a bunch for the offer. I did notice none of my to-read books translated from GR. They came in with "to-read" tags. While I have your attention please for God's sake don't sell this site to the big A. They destroyed Shelfari and are now overseeing the transmogorification of GR into a new MySpace full of brain-dead trolls, spambots, and hideous user-generated HTML.

4lilithcat
Mar 1, 2015, 11:56 am

> 3

Yes, Tim is the CEO and he definitely is something!

The fact that Tim checks out the forums and is happy to help out with stuff like this is one of the very best things about LibraryThing.

Hope you enjoy hanging around here. Judging from your sense of humor, I think you'll fit right in!

5jillrhudy
Mar 1, 2015, 12:30 pm

My apologies for not searching the forums more thoroughly. I have now spent about 30 minutes reading about Tim's desires for the future of the site. I could not figure out how to search Talk instead of the books.