Welcome Visual Bookshelf Members!

Since this influx of new books was unexpected, our book importer has been running quite a bit behind (sometimes as much as 12 hours behind). We apologize for this inconvenience, but we assure you that the importer has now caught up and anyone who has imported books should now see them on their shelves (We are still importing books that lacked ISBN numbers. The process takes a bit longer, as we have to match them by title and author).
UPDATE: We now have a one-click solution for importing your books from Living Social's Visual Bookshelf. Simply click the Visual Bookshelf link that says "export your books to Goodreads." Alternatively, you can paste any of your export URLs into our importer (rather than all three), and let us do the rest.
Many of you were likely using Visual Bookshelf primarily as a Facebook app. Goodreads is a stand-alone social network and community, but we do offer deep integration with Facebook through Facebook Connect, which means posting your book reviews to Facebook is easy to do. If you are already connected, you'll see an option to post to Facebook as you write a review. If you aren't, a button to connect and post will be on the next page. Goodreads also makes it easy to post ratings, to-read books, trivia questions, and reading progress to Facebook: Simply navigate to the apps tab to edit your settings.

Goodreads is much more than a mere cataloging site. We feature over 40,000 book clubs organized along a variety of topics and genres. There are book clubs dedicated to specific parts of the world, young adult book clubs, fiction book clubs and much, much more. If you are looking to exchange ideas with other readers, you're in the right place.

If any Visual Bookshelf members want to request features they miss or report any bugs, please let us know in the Goodreads Feedback Group. In fact, we started a thread discussing the key differences between the two sites. Let us know what features you're missing!
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Visual Bookshelf started out as a really neat app but with Living Social's switch to a social coupon site, the maintenance and innovation definitely suffered. I have high hopes Goodreads will be around for years to come!


Anything like that here? Just asking ...

That sounds awesome :)

There are things I really liked on VB and I will be discussing them in the specific discussion thread.
Overall, I am happy with GoodReads!




"It's not you. It's us.
First of all, thank you for your enthusiastic support over the past four years. Your continued engagement with our these applications means a lot to us here at LivingSocial, and we're sad that we haven't been able to dedicate the time and effort you deserve to keep this community alive and thriving.
It's not you. It's us. You see — about two years ago — we tried a new idea, which has taken our team and company in a new direction. This community needs tools and products that are fully supported and continually improved, and unfortunately, this is something we just can't support right now.
We know your data is important to you. Before we discontinue the service, we gave you 30 days to save it.
We have helped many of you do just that and migrate to other applications around the internet, such as GoodReads, LibraryThing, etc.
On August 12th, 2011, we shut down this suite of applications.
If you have any concerns/questions or just want to say hi (or grr!), you can reach us at interests@livingsocial.com"
Someone please help me!! I at least need to retrieve information on what books I've already read because it means a lot to me. =(
I shouldn't have trusted that Visual Bookshelf app in the first place and devoted myself instead to this unique website. *sighs*


I found out about the move about a day before it 'closed' last year, spent a while frantically trying to export my booklist to Goodreads, which never eventuated.
Gutted that I lost over 3 years of reading which I faithfully documented the books I read, enjoyed, or wanted to come back to, not to mention favourite authors I had found etc etc.
Just realised I actually stopped reading books about that point as I was disillusioned (and time constrained) with not being able to 'add to my collection' - never realised this was as important to me as it was till recently! I know there's bigger things in life to get rarked off about, but losing 3-4 years of 'work' would piss anyone off, I reckon!
Have restarted reading again in the last 2 weeks, feels like reinventing the wheel. Never again to place my faith in anything but my own documentation

Anyone had any luck?