Import - works as designed which is BAD

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Import - works as designed which is BAD

1jjmcgaffey
Today, 5:54 pm

So I finally got around to testing adding a book I already had to add a new read date. And it does in fact do exactly what it says it does - _replaces_ the read date (all of them? not sure) with the imported data. I love that LT lets me keep track of my read dates, and this import function is the opposite of useful (thank goodness it occurred to me to test it before I imported 119 books with new read dates!).

Not sure this is technically a bug - it may be a RSI request instead. But I don't understand why this is a option at all - given that it's a multi-entry field, why would anyone want to _replace_ the already entered data?