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Easily Add Books You Purchased from Amazon to Your Goodreads Shelves! (Available for members in the U.S., Canada, and Australia)
Our members have been asking for a long time for a quick way to add their Amazon book purchases to their Goodreads shelves. So, we’ve come up with a new way to help: Today, we’re starting to roll out an Add Your Amazon Books feature! You can now add books you’ve purchased on Amazon – both print and Kindle books – to your Goodreads shelves. This will be available in the next few weeks to members in the U.S., Canada, and Australia.
Why add your Amazon purchases?
- Building out your bookshelves means that more of your friends will know about your favorite books.
- More books added to your Goodreads shelves means better recommendations to help you find more great books to read. The super-smart algorithm powering our recommendations engine analyzes the books you rate to come up with the best book suggestions for your unique reading tastes.
- Do you remember every book you’ve read? This is a quick way to add more of those elusive books from your past to your Goodreads shelves—as well as books you’ve bought and are planning to read. Never forget a book again!
How do you know if you have the feature? You’ll see the Add Amazon Book Purchases link in the Tools list on the left hand side of the My Books page (and a small announcement at the top of the page). Click on either link and you’ll be asked to sign in to your Amazon account. You’ll then see your Amazon book purchases. You can go through and rate each book and select the appropriate shelf for it. We give you full control over which books to add so you can avoid adding any books bought as gifts. Any book not rated or added to a shelf will not be added to Goodreads.
Can’t wait to get started? If you are in the U.S., Canada, or Australia, you can get early access to the Add Your Amazon Books option by clicking this link:
It's fun to scroll through years and years of book purchases. You just might come across a book you loved but then forgot--it’s like seeing a long-lost friend!
Members in the U.S., Canada, and Australia can also use the Add Your Amazon Books option on Goodreads on Kindle Paperwhite (first and second generation devices) and the new Kindle Fires.
Let us know what you think about the Add Your Amazon Books feature. Did you rediscover any forgotten books?
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Thanks Emily and Julie. I’m new to Goodreads so I’m still figuring all of this out. ASIN: B00OQGJNN4
Have a great day!
How can I add all of my amazon books at once?? I have 1500+ books and dont have the time to sit there & go through all of them individually
Amanda wrote: "I tried this just now and it didn't work. I purchased a bunch of books on kindle just yesterday and when I did the link above and logged into amazon, it told me I had no books to sync at this time...."Same here - it didn't sync...
I have a feeling this will add a lot of bad ratings data. I'm not looking forward to even trying this feature as I'll have to rate about 700 books just counting the ones I've read on Kindle in the last 3 years. If I do it at all, I'll probably just rate them all 5 stars to avoid skewing the best books downward. Whoever thought this was a good idea must not read very much.
Jason, you don't have to rate all your books, you can just pick a few to rate.
And exactly what good does it do to only add a few of the books I've read? It doesn't import them unless you rate them again. Yes, again, I already rated them all with my kindle. The odds of me being able to rate them accurately now is next to nil and it would take forever to do all of them. I'd been waiting for an import feature but the way it's been implemented doesn't really help much. The rating requirement and UI layout just isn't adequate for importing more than a few. It'd be fine for maintaining things once I get caught up but that'll never happen the way things work now.
I am trying to link my GR account to my Amazon account. When I click the link, it tells me that my "Goodreads account is already linked to a different Amazon account." 1) I don't have another Amazon account and 2) I can't find a way to UNlink it so I can tell it to use the right account. I logged out of Amazon and signed in fresh, and it's still giving me the error. ???
I have recently linked my Amazon account and Goodreads together. However, there is one book I purchased for my kindle which does not show in the list of books to link to Goodreads. Its the only one I'm reading currently and would like to track my reading progress. Is it because the book existed in my Goodreads shelves before I connected the 2 accounts?Thanks for the help!
Is this feature coming any time soon for iBooks? I could really use it!
I found it for Amazon.co.uk - not on My Books page under tools. Go to your Profile - Account, go to Apps. If you have already linked your Amazon account you will see underneath a link to add your Amazon books. Works fine. I had a catchup exercise to do as I had not been logging my books to GoodReads. It doesn't take that long to rate / mark each one as read. And in the future doing the import from Amazon to GoodReads each time I make Kindle purchases (I usually buy half a dozen Kindle books at a time) means it means I will be able to keep my GoodReads list up to date more easily. Thank you for this.
I have one request for this ..... when rating books to be imported, which automatically sets the shelf to Read, can the date read automatically be set to the date of the import if it is not set manually by the user?
This option has been missing for me for a little over a week now. I miss it. Where did it go?????
Is this why my Kindle no longer has shelves? I'm expected to use the Goodreads shelves instead???
Sarah wrote: "Will this functionality work even if you use a different email address for Amazon than the one used for Goodreads?"Doubt it, sorry
so this feature even though well over a year old is not working still???When I click to link my amazon account it doesn't give me a choice of which amazon account to use (I have both .com and .co.uk accounts). I'm only able to log into amazon.com and when I do it says:
You currently do not have any Amazon book purchases to import.
Only books purchased on amazon.com, .ca, .co.uk, and .au sites may be viewed at this time.
If you purchased books from a different Amazon site, please try again soon!
Well that is not true, I've got a couple in my amazon.com account, but what I really want is to be able to link my amazon.co.uk account that has over 50 books!!
When linking my Amazon account goodreads is defaulting to the Amazon.co.uk site. I have no purchases on this site and unable to tell it to sign in to the Amazon.com site. Any ideas?
Does this even work at all right now? I'm trying to add my amazon books and all I get is "the spinning wheel of death." Nothing ever loads...
My wife and I use the same Amazon account, but have separate Goodreads accounts. Is there some way that we can sync purchases from the Amazon account to both Goodreads accounts?
Hey... when is this feature going to be rolled out in India? Waiting eagarly
I have the same problem as many others - I've been buying books on Amazon uk since the first month it started up (!), but when I link to my Amazon account via Goodreads, I get a notice saying I don't have any books purchased.Feeling a bit insulted since I must have bought over a thousand books from Amazon by now.
Simon HL
Is there any plan to add this feature to other countries like Brazil?
Why would you not have this available for Amazon.it? All my books are there. :( Hope I'll be able to add my library soon!
Is there any way to do this with NOOK books?
I am very disappointed that this still does not work for most countries in the world. Its not like this is a difficult feature to implement. What sort of message does this send? Does amazon really shit on all their customers not living in U.S., Canada, and Australia?I even tried moving my account to amazon.com, but guess what? It will only sync for all the purchases made on amazon.com. Well, fuck this.
Is there a way to add all amazon purchases at once to a specific shelf? Or can I at least set a default shelf to use for amazon imports? It's really tiresome to change the shelf and add each book individually.
Does anyone know of a way to do this with books that are in the DOCS part of kindle? I have been given many free books and they are emailed to me then I email them to my kindle email. They don't show up using this. I have several dozen to add and don't want to do it individually.
Also, anyone know of a way to add wishlist books on Amazon to goodreads?
Also, anyone know of a way to add wishlist books on Amazon to goodreads?
Another question: I am trying to load mine, is there a way to select all as "Want to Read" instead of clicking that one every book?
Will this ever be available for nook books? I have over 600 books on my nook right now.
Jennifer wrote: "Is there any way to do this with NOOK books?"I have the same question. I have over 600 books on my nook and would love to sync them with goodreads. I don't have the time to input each one individually.
Jodi wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "Is there any way to do this with NOOK books?"I have the same question. I have over 600 books on my nook and would love to sync them with goodreads. I don't have the time to input ..."
I wouldn't think so since Amazon owns goodreads...just my opinion though.
Great feature. Is there any way to import the rating you gave the book in Amazon? I rate everything there when I finish it but now have hundreds of unrated books in Goodreads.
i was importing my books from amazon to goodreads. it let me do some of them but not all of them. can you tell me how i can get them into a file from amazon so i can import them into goodreads, exactly what would i use to do this.
I have a number of book in Kindle which I did not buy from Amazon, is there any way for these to be imported into Goodreads?
I can't seem to get this feature to work at all, I have about a dozen books i've bought for my kindle and even though it says i'm linked, it won't sync the books i've purchased.. I don't mind adding them manually but I thought this way was supposed to be easier and convenient.
Jonathan wrote: "I have a number of book in Kindle which I did not buy from Amazon, is there any way for these to be imported into Goodreads?"Yes, there's an importer available! You'll want to prepare your file in .csv, .xls, or .txt format and then upload it by following the steps below:
Note : We highly recommend checking out our sample file beforehand to get an idea of how the data should appear. This should prevent any import issues.
1. Log in to Goodreads and click on My Books in the header.
2. Click on "import/export" underneath your list of shelves.
3. Under Import from a File, click on “Choose file" and select the file from your computer.
4. Click on “Import Books.”
Voila!
Matt wrote: "I can't seem to get this feature to work at all, I have about a dozen books i've bought for my kindle and even though it says i'm linked, it won't sync the books i've purchased.. I don't mind addin..."Sorry to hear you're experiencing difficulty! To best assist you, please send a message to: support (at) goodreads (dot) com. We'll take a look!
Is there a way to sort the books purchased from Amazon - title, author or date purchased? I have hundreds of books that came over from Amazon, but they show up on Goodreads in no order I can discern. Similar to the books are in My Books, where settings allow you to customize.
Barb wrote: "Is there a way to sort the books purchased from Amazon - title, author or date purchased? I have hundreds of books that came over from Amazon, but they show up on Goodreads in no order I can discer..."Hi Barb! Right now there isn't a way to sort your books during the import phase. What you can do is sort after the Amazon -> Goodreads import has completed where your books would then appear on your "My Books" page.
Shaun wrote: "Barb wrote: "Is there a way to sort the books purchased from Amazon - title, author or date purchased? I have hundreds of books that came over from Amazon, but they show up on Goodreads in no order..."
Thanks, I just looked up each book (on Audible.com or Amazon) to see if I had read it or needed to put in on the "want to read list ". After I got that done, I noted that all my audio books from Audible.com were imported as hardcover. I'm not going to try & update that info, Too time consuming to do that-95% of my books are audio. I hope in future we'll be able to sort by "Read" or "Want to Read".
Thanks, I just looked up each book (on Audible.com or Amazon) to see if I had read it or needed to put in on the "want to read list ". After I got that done, I noted that all my audio books from Audible.com were imported as hardcover. I'm not going to try & update that info, Too time consuming to do that-95% of my books are audio. I hope in future we'll be able to sort by "Read" or "Want to Read".
Barb wrote: "Shaun wrote: "Barb wrote: "Is there a way to sort the books purchased from Amazon - title, author or date purchased? I have hundreds of books that came over from Amazon, but they show up on Goodrea..."Hi Barb, sorry to hear the import didn't work as you expected. We'd love to improve how imports work as we move forward and I've passed your feedback on to our developers to assist in that process.
Shaun wrote: "Barb wrote: "Shaun wrote: "Barb wrote: "Is there a way to sort the books purchased from Amazon - title, author or date purchased? I have hundreds of books that came over from Amazon, but they show ..."
Shaun wrote: "Barb wrote: "Shaun wrote: "Barb wrote: "Is there a way to sort the books purchased from Amazon - title, author or date purchased? I have hundreds of books that came over from Amazon, but they show ..."
I appreciate what Amazon has done. They did a great job of pulling all books together (print, ebooks, audio, etc) and putting this option in Goodreads. It certainly is a lot better than tracking all books manually in Excel which is what I was doing. I'm sure it will continue to improve over time.
Shaun wrote: "Barb wrote: "Shaun wrote: "Barb wrote: "Is there a way to sort the books purchased from Amazon - title, author or date purchased? I have hundreds of books that came over from Amazon, but they show ..."
I appreciate what Amazon has done. They did a great job of pulling all books together (print, ebooks, audio, etc) and putting this option in Goodreads. It certainly is a lot better than tracking all books manually in Excel which is what I was doing. I'm sure it will continue to improve over time.
ok so this feature is now more than 2 years old. is there still no amazon.de support? is somebody working on an upgrade? This really is a very useful tool. especially if it used all its potential. sadly it seems stuck.
The more I try to use Goodreads the more frustrating it gets..Now I'm trying to add my Kindle books to Goodreads, the link shown above does not show up for me, from the Kindle app I see books I added before but no way to add new ones! Who designed this unintuitive price of utter garbage??
Merry, is there a way to pull the rating you've given the book in Amazon in along with the import into Goodreads? I've got about a thousand books there I've read & rated, and it would be helpful here to know which I would recommend.
damn that would be a great feature if they could pull my amazon review! I mean it it ever gets any update at all at this point. somebody from goodreads care to chime in here?
Can you create a feature to add our TO BE READ books to a list on Amazon? This would be super helpful and really easy for people to see what you are hoping to purchase in the future.
Would appreciate the integration/ sync of Amazon.de
Stephanie wrote: "Can you create a feature to add our TO BE READ books to a list on Amazon? This would be super helpful and really easy for people to see what you are hoping to purchase in the future."I agree :)
Hey Christopher - Julie's right about this one. If the book record doesn't exist on Goodreads yet, then it won't appear. I'd be happy to add any Kindle editions for you (just comment with the ASIN), or you can post in the Librarians Group:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...