Librarything showing books on "home" page but not in "your books" page

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Librarything showing books on "home" page but not in "your books" page

1elhardcastle
May 19, 8:04 pm

I’m hoping someone here can help because I genuinely cannot figure this out

I imported my BookBuddy CSV into LibraryThing using smart import and my homepage says I have 1,436 books under “Your Books”, but when I go into my collections/catalogue it only shows “Your library (26)” and I can only actually see and export 26 books.

I’ve already:

* checked different collections
* checked hidden collections
* looked for incomplete imports
* checked Power Edit
* tried catalog.php
* removed filters/searches

…but I still can’t find the missing books anywhere.

The weird part is the homepage count still says 1,436 books, so it feels like the books exist somewhere but just aren’t visible.

I’ll attach a screenshot of the homepage/settings in case that helps.

Has anyone had this happen before or knows how to fix it?

2gilroy
Edited: May 20, 9:38 am

If you go into your charts and graphs pages, you'll notice that all your books have no collections:
https://www.librarything.com/stats/elhardcastle/collections

So they won't show up unless they are given a collection. So you either need to have your library reindexed by staff or somehow get a collection on your books.

ETA: And if you rerun your import, you'll just make matters twice as bad, because you'll just add a second copy of books with no collection