GR book/author clean up to LT's Touchstones, any tricks?

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GR book/author clean up to LT's Touchstones, any tricks?

1DebiCates
Sep 15, 2025, 6:15 pm

Just checking if anyone here has any tricks for a big clean up job I need to do in my GR imported reviews, reviews that will look godawful ugly like this when I had referenced, linked, to another book:

b:The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees|54110488|The Nature of Oaks The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees|Douglas W. Tallamy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1608663515l/54110488._SX50_.jpg|84458549

Any hints for identifying which of my near 500 reviews I might have included GR links like that?

I don't suppose there is any magic to convert them to LT, but that is less a project than finding where all I did that.

2DebiCates
Sep 15, 2025, 6:20 pm

I think I answered my own question! I might be getting the hang of this LibraryThing thing.

In the (universal) Search LibraryThing box, I searched

gr-assets.com

Which gave me 0 results.

Except then I clicked on the left side, under Your Books, All Collections. And there they were! Just 16 instances.

Whew. I can clean that up, np.

3norabelle414
Edited: Sep 15, 2025, 6:26 pm

To find them, you can search your catalog for ""https", changing the drop-down next to the search box to "reviews"

ETA: that works too! Searching using the site search and then clicking "your books" on the left side is the same as searching from your catalog.

4DebiCates
Sep 15, 2025, 6:38 pm

>3 norabelle414: Uh oh. I spoke too soon. Maybe I still don't know LT like I thought I did. What is "your catalog"? Is that the same as "your collections?"

AND OMG, there is a drop down box next to the Search Your Library box!

Will wonders never cease.

5norabelle414
Edited: Sep 15, 2025, 7:07 pm

>4 DebiCates: Yes, sorry! "your books", "your catalog", "your collections" are all interchangeable. I usually use "catalog" myself but I try to remember to use "your books" when talking to others since that's what the tab on the dark brown bar is labeled.

6DebiCates
Sep 15, 2025, 8:10 pm

>5 norabelle414: I can understand that. Being a newbie, I'm stuck using the precise phraseology, lest I confuse myself, or refer to something that already exists here that I'm unaware of but with a different meaning. ha

Thanks, once again, Norabelle.