I should probably declare my madness up front .. looking at microblog, literal, storygraph and Goodreads … and they all have different books and statuses. Has anyone exported to csv from all the apps, merged and deleted records and then reimported?
@JohnPhilpin would love to hear if you’ve chosen one as a favorite/what you’ll stick with. I’ve tried most at one point or another (and maybe they’ve gotten better), but always go back to Goodreads as it’s seemed like the most reliable and consistently has everything.
@humdrum @JohnPhilpin I’m using GoodReads and Epilogue. On the former, I’ve a select set of friends who I know are avid readers and whose tastes I relate to. I find plenty of my to-reads via them. One of them is my former roommate’s wife whom I didn’t meet in person until recently and just that one time ☺️ I also like the reading progress feature (not enabled to share on the timeline).
Continuing the saga of book lists …
The exports and merging continue … and it is now such a mess that am probably going to flat earth one of the spaces, take 4 csv files and merge it all, and see what happens.
It’s a shame that there isn’t a standard approach to how these services handle the data. Examples.
- Tags in one service become book shelves in another service.
- Epilogue is particularly bad in deleting books …
… you are offered an opportunity to delete a book, it may or may not delete it, the app crashes and you are taken back to the beginning when you open the app again. - dupes are easy to have in ANY of the services
And and and …