Your import isn't really complete!

[Charming]

I am starting a new topic for this, hoping it will save people a bunch of unnecessary effort. I looked at my shelves yesterday after I got the note and was very sad at all the missing stuff. This morning I looked again and I have 58 more books and many. many more covers.

So I really recommend that everyone wait some more before panicking. I can't believe the stuff that made it over - even online fiction, with covers.

[☯Emily]

You are correct. There were errors yesterday, but many of those issues have been corrected today.

[Charming]

And that German cover that was infesting everyone is gone too.

[Robert]

I think there were site issues yesterday as opposed import issues.

[☯Emily]

Now if they could just put the book jackets on mine. Most of my shelf is made up of green books.

[[deleted user]]

This is why I refuse to import. Fortunately, I have far fewer books to transfer than most of you. I'll do it manually, even if it takes forever.

[Charming]

☯Emily Who Wonders Why GR Is Silent wrote: "Now if they could just put the book jackets on mine. Most of my shelf is made up of green books."

How long ago did your import finish? I have probably half as many green covers today as I did yesterday.

[Juli Pennock]

Charming wrote: "And that German cover that was infesting everyone is gone too."

So glad that wasn't just me, it was freaking me out ;)

[ErikaWasReading]

Charming wrote: "☯Emily Who Wonders Why GR Is Silent wrote: "Now if they could just put the book jackets on mine. Most of my shelf is made up of green books."

How long ago did your import finish? I have probably..."

I still have a ton of green covers :/

[☯Emily]

Erika wrote: "Charming wrote: "☯Emily Who Wonders Why GR Is Silent wrote: "Now if they could just put the book jackets on mine. Most of my shelf is made up of green books."

How long ago did your import finish?..."

I have more today than I did yesterday when the import was complete. Are you saying to just wait and it will correct itself? That's what happened with the German book that was in my Little Women's review.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Jennifer (Cogito, ergo sum) wrote: "This is why I refuse to import. Fortunately, I have far fewer books to transfer than most of you. I'll do it manually, even if it takes forever."

I'm doing it manually, as I think of things.

ETA: Have a few green covers. Mostly of long out-of-print books.

[Suzanne]

I'm pretty sure that in the beginning I also ticked an option for syncing and I wonder if that is what is happening now that the import is 'complete'? Really have no idea and I am still looking at a lot of green covers. I think it's going to be a slow process chipping away, 'tidying' up!

[[deleted user]]

I imported 2026 books, with 741 reviews and the initial import took under 10 minutes. I still have some green covers, but it's nice to have my books and reviews over there. I thought about moving them by hand, and then decided to do the import instead I hope the green covers go away quickly. I miss having librarian privilege; are we allowed to alter a book's record in anyway? Does anybody know?

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

If you wait, some of the green covers should clear up.

Or, you can click the green cover and add one from acceptable data sources (booklikes let's you add missing covers, clicking green cover brings up an edition's book page and there's an option underneath to add a cover).

I'm not positive what booklikes considers acceptable data sources but that will generally not be from other book communities/sites, booksellers, or auction/secondhand site. Acceptable source are usually publisher, author, certain library and archive sites that say so in TOS, and a photo/screenshot/scan of your own book, print or digital. Booklikes may have exceptions from making prior arrangements with certain booksellers or other sites.

[[deleted user]]

Thanks, Debbie I have covers on a lot of my kindle books, so I'm quite pleased with my first pass.

[Darkpool]

Gah! I seem to have more green covers today than I had yesterday.
Right. deep breath, walk away. perhaps they will reappear.

[[deleted user]]

The only problem I have right now are the exclusive shelves that got cross-shelved onto "planning to read".

[Sarah]

Suzanne wrote: "I'm pretty sure that in the beginning I also ticked an option for syncing and I wonder if that is what is happening now that the import is 'complete'? Really have no idea and I am still looking at..."

Yes, I did that too, but I read it incorrectly: I thought it said "Goodreads to BookLikes", but it is the other way around.

Then, after my import should have been completed, I was missing 95 books, so I started going through and adding them, but then they imported themselves, so I had some listed twice. Fortunately I didn't add many, and I found them again and deleted them. Sigh.

[Suzanne]

Sarah wrote: "Suzanne wrote: "I'm pretty sure that in the beginning I also ticked an option for syncing and I wonder if that is what is happening now that the import is 'complete'? Really have no idea and I am ..."

It's all a big learning curve for lots of us I'm sure! Thanks for the feedback :)