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Oh my gosh, that is a brave step! I am checking in less and less but I figure that my profile will go off into the oblivion when the site is shut down.I wonder if there is a benefit to deleting my account before the official shut down?
I effectively shut down my Leafmarks account yesterday since we will be housed on GR. I really would like to focus on one site and maybe get involved more here instead of spreading myself between two sites.
Nicole wrote: "I wonder if there is a benefit to deleting my account before the official shut down?"I don't know if there's a benefit to it, really. It was more just to help me move on if that makes sense.
I've been putting off deleting my account. There's just something so final about it.I do like that most everything I use is now on one site, however. It makes it so much easier to keep of things.
Jenni Elyse wrote: "I officially deleted my Shelfari account today. Since I've been using Goodreads and Shelfari concurrently, I had all my information here already. But, there were some things that I didn't have on G..."Jenni Elyse, I like your style and I also just pulled my own plug from Shelfari. Something feels good about deleting my account on my own before they kill the site. So yes, what you said above makes total sense (to me). Onward!
All I can say is at the moment, and it could be this 6 day migraine I've had or something, but I am confused over this group shelf, getting my review on there, etc.I am also confused as to why I already see reviews up for February's tag.
Jenni Elyse wrote: "I officially deleted my Shelfari account today. ..."I noticed while shelving this weekend that at least one other of our members has deleted her account already, as well.
Karin, check out the FAQ to learn more about shelving books the the PBT group shelf, and I am happy to walk you through it later today if you like!It is quite different from Shelfari (where members did no shelving and the wonderful Cindy took care of it all!) but once you get the hang of it, it is quite a convenient feature.
There is a learning curve and we do not expect everyone to know how to do everything right away!!
As for the February reviews, we set up the thread thinking we would not open PBT GR until Feb. 1 and some of the admins placed reviews for World War II books we recently finished to serve as examples when everyone came over.
Then, we opened the group a little early and a few other people went ahead and posted reviews of books they have finished even though it is not yet February.
It is just a little jumping the gun and the PBT admins are being lenient because everyone is learning the new site and trying new things. Next month will go back to the usual way of not posting the review folder for the monthly reads until the first of the month.
Sometimes, when moving, you have to be flexible and enjoy a couple of small perks to make the transition less painful!!!
Yeah, since we didn't plan to open until February 1st, we figured we'd be fine on the monthly tag thread.But the early opening means we are pretending it is February right now! I'm kinda glad because there are so many good World War II books I want to get to . . .
Karin wrote: I am confused over this group shelf, getting my review on there, etc...."
Check message #3 on this thread - - it may help you with the group shelf.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Did anybody else have issues transfering their content from Shelfari to GR? I have around 1300 books on Shelfari and only about 250 were moved. I had to do the rest manually.
Sarah, I and quite a few others have had issues with GR transferring the shelves. I have over 2,500 books on my shelfari account between TBR and Read. GR said the transfer had been successful but they only moved 800 items! Of the 800 most are marked wrong between To Read and Read. I've had to go in and change them manually. Also it said it moved only 1 (one) review! It moved more than that but I have found a great number missing. (I had started to duplicate some things on GR a few years back but not consistently) I know this will all work out in the end but I'm hating this and missing Shelfari a lot.
Jenni Elyse wrote: "I officially deleted my Shelfari account today. Since I've been using Goodreads and Shelfari concurrently, I had all my information here already. But, there were some things that I didn't have on G..."That's definitely one way to do it. Do it before your forced. That way you have some control. :-)
Regina wrote: "Jenni Elyse wrote: "I officially deleted my Shelfari account today. Since I've been using Goodreads and Shelfari concurrently, I had all my information here already. But, there were some things tha..."They will have to force me. And like any person being foreclosed upon, I am quite tempted to pour concrete down the water pipes. ;)
Sara wrote: "Regina wrote: "Jenni Elyse wrote: "I officially deleted my Shelfari account today. Since I've been using Goodreads and Shelfari concurrently, I had all my information here already. But, there were ..."Maybe they could do a reality show like when people get their cars repossessed :-)
Regina wrote: "Sara wrote: "Regina wrote: "Jenni Elyse wrote: "I officially deleted my Shelfari account today. Since I've been using Goodreads and Shelfari concurrently, I had all my information here already. But..."Ha!
Well, I'm admin of a couple of groups on Shelfari, so I'm staying there until the bitter end.Also, I think it helps if people who are having a good experience on GR (or Leafmarks or Library Thing) stick around on Shelfari to help other people who haven't made a decision yet on where to migrate.
I'm still surprised that a couple of weeks after the announcement, people are still commenting about "just checked in and discovered ..."
However ... I've really slowed down posting to most groups on Shelfari
Book Concierge wrote: "Also, I think it helps if people who are having a good experience on GR (or Leafmarks or Library Thing) stick around on Shelfari to help other people who haven't made a decision yet on where to migrate. ..."I think this is a really good point, BC.
Book Concierge wrote: "Well, I'm admin of a couple of groups on Shelfari, so I'm staying there until the bitter end.Also, I think it helps if people who are having a good experience on GR (or Leafmarks or Library Thing..."
Yeah, that is a good idea. I didn't even think about it.
Karin wrote: "All I can say is at the moment, and it could be this 6 day migraine I've had or something, but I am confused over this group shelf,..."DEEP CLEANSING BREATH ....
Yesterday I didn't go to Shelfari at all. It is just so irritating in it's current format. I do need to get some info before it shut down. I just ordered a new laptop so maybe I can play on the weekend and get some stuff done.
Nicole wrote: "Karin, check out the FAQ to learn more about shelving books the the PBT group shelf, and I am happy to walk you through it later today if you like!It is quite different from Shelfari (where membe..."
Actually, now that my migraine is nearly gone, I got it very quickly. I cannot believe how "stupid" I can get with one of those, plus I was totally exhausted. It's just the same as adding a book to your own shelf, but you only do the ones for the monthly tag and whatever else we are allowing, but NOT the other books we read and post. I will go back and reread what we're to do with that (perhaps just reviews in a thread) now that my brain has rebooted.
Nicole wrote: "Karin wrote: "All I can say is at the moment, and it could be this 6 day migraine I've had or something, but I am confused over this group shelf,..."DEEP CLEANSING BREATH ...."
I am laughing. If only that would clear it out. I did finally find the cause of it, since normally a migraine is a 72 hour event. The cause has been removed, so I should get far, far fewer again, I hope. The reason I'm laughing is because it turns out it was caused by something I was breathing in. My husband had to take some previously opened cans of polyurethane out of his van, and instead of putting them in between the top and bottom doors of our doghouse style basement entry, he had them on the stairs. When I finally found them, I picked one up and took a sniff. If you can smell it, it's off gassing and I could certainly smell it (plus it got much worse right then for a while).
I put them in a 2.5 gallon zip lock bag and then in the correct place.
Book Concierge wrote: "Well, I'm admin of a couple of groups on Shelfari, so I'm staying there until the bitter end.Also, I think it helps if people who are having a good experience on GR (or Leafmarks or Library Thing..."
And some groups there aren't moving until March 1, but most are moving now. I go back for a few things like that, but it's slow and sad over there now.
I took a look back at the past tags on Shelfari, and I specifically remembered 'social commentary' being the tag when I joined PBT originally.Turns out that was 2011, January! Took a probably 4 year hiatus from the group, but it's nice and circular coming back exactly 5 years later, January 2016.
Does anyone know if Goodreads will allow more than 1 reading goal?
Brandy wrote: "Does anyone know if Goodreads will allow more than 1 reading goal?"Hi Brandy,
I'm pretty sure it will only track the number of books, but you can readily set up other reading goals by utilizing your personal shelf. For example, I want to read all 100 of the PBT fiction list. So I as I read those books, I'm using a consistent tag (shelf) each time, so I can see how many of the 100 I have read with just a click.
Let me know if I can be helpful to you as you try to set up a particular goal.
I'm devastated! But it seems I'm not the only one with problems! I moved my 1800 books over and got a message to say that 476 books had not been moved. I assume these are the ones that are not on Amazon - or not the right edition. Also Dutch books that I added by hand. And where are my reviews? And my wishlist is now part of the to-read shelf? I'm not going to change anything. I think it's too much trouble. But I am mourning my lovely database of books and reviews called Shelfari.
JudithAnn wrote: "I'm devastated! But it seems I'm not the only one with problems! I moved my 1800 books over and got a message to say that 476 books had not been moved. I assume these are the ones that are not on A..."I'm with you JudithAnn, I've lost lots of books and they transferred with the wrong designation - to read vs read plus many without reviews. I'm doing my best fix some of these things manually by going back and forth between Shelfari and GR with copy and paste. I hope to complete before Shelfari shuts down. I'm really being a fanatic about it - must be my librarian self!
Barbara, there's one bit of light in the darkness, and that is that you can export your Shelfari shelves to CSV (so, an excel-type file). I did this, and it has a row for each book with all the information, including reviews. So, if you export to CSV now, you can be sure that you still have all the details on your books, even after Shelfari has shut down.
JudithAnn wrote: "Barbara, there's one bit of light in the darkness, and that is that you can export your Shelfari shelves to CSV (so, an excel-type file). I did this, and it has a row for each book with all the inf..."I'm in the midst of doing that, I think. I've saved it to my computer and trying to do an import but, last time, I got a message that GR took too long - huh? So I'll keep at it.
Barbara, in Shelfari, I pressed a button to export to CSV, and a little later, I got an email with CSV files attached. But I didn't mean then importing that file to GR. I haven't tried that.
JudithAnn wrote: "Barbara, in Shelfari, I pressed a button to export to CSV, and a little later, I got an email with CSV files attached. But I didn't mean then importing that file to GR. I haven't tried that."I did that also. Ever since then, for several days, I've tried importing it. Every time, I get this message "Goodreads request took too long. The latest request to the Goodreads servers took too long to respond. We have been notified of the issue and are looking into it." That certainly doesn't help much! Did that happen to you when, if, you tried to import?
I clicked the "export to CSV" last week and never heard anything.I tried it again today ... about 4 hours ago .... and so far .. nothing.
I don't want to ever import it to Goodreads, but DO want a back-up file.
Should I NOT add any more books to my shelf while I wait for the export?
Book Concierge wrote: "I clicked the "export to CSV" last week and never heard anything.I tried it again today ... about 4 hours ago .... and so far .. nothing.
I don't want to ever import it to Goodreads, but DO want ..."
I think it takes days to get your file! If you use GMail - it will end up in the Social or Updates. I missed it for at least a whole day when it finally did come in!
Barbara wrote: "JudithAnn wrote: "Barbara, in Shelfari, I pressed a button to export to CSV, and a little later, I got an email with CSV files attached. But I didn't mean then importing that file to GR. I haven't ..."Importing that file to Goodreads will probably never work. I tried it numerous times and it consistently failed with that same error you are seeing.
Instead, I suggest that you compose an e-mail to <support at goodreads dot com>, attach your library.csv file, and ask them to please import it for you. It is unlikely to be a perfect import, but will probably get the bulk of your info onto GR - including your ratings and reviews.
I had about one thousand books to move from Shelfari and the support folks here managed to get about 950 of them into 'My Books'. Much better than the 155 the auto-importer managed!
HTH...
very little of my books came over correctly and for many of them i just let it all go. cleaned house so to speak as my reading tastes are so different than when i first started on Shelfari. I hadn't thought about deleting my account and just tried to log on to do that and the server stopped working for me. so i think i'll just let that go also.
Shelfari is really in its death knells. I only have one active group left there (moving March 1) and posting is now abysmal.
Karin wrote: "Shelfari is really in its death knells. I only have one active group left there (moving March 1) and posting is now abysmal."I'm actually just having a lot of trouble getting parts of it to work. I wanted to copy some old review directly, and couldn't get any of the EDIT buttons on my shelf to display the details that lie beneath it.
Rina1775 wrote: "very little of my books came over correctly and for many of them i just let it all go. cleaned house so to speak as my reading tastes are so different than when i first started on Shelfari. I hadn'..."You have a good attitude. I'm attempting to copy my reviews onto Goodreads from the spreadsheet they so kindly provided. I'm up to the letter "M" in my list of books. It is taking forever. I'm somewhere between completely compulsive and letting it go, but obviously closer to compulsive.
Anita, when you first started copying them across I thought they were real time reviews and I was awestruck by your reading prowess!
Anita wrote: "I'm actually just having a lot of trouble getting parts of it to work. I wanted to copy some old review directly, and couldn't get any of the EDIT buttons on my shelf to display the details that lie beneath it. ..."It seemed to be working semi-decently until last night (Monday night), Anita. At least for me. Last night and today are really bad. I can't get in to the green EDIT button at all the past two days.
And posting to groups and note seems to work (eventually!), but it takes so long to post that I don't see it until I give up and come back later to see it posted multiple times because I didn't think it was working!
Anita wrote: "Rina1775 wrote: "very little of my books came over correctly and for many of them i just let it all go. cleaned house so to speak as my reading tastes are so different than when i first started on ..."Thats kind of you to say, Anita. I've always paid my paperbacks forward when I was done with them and so its natural I'd comb through my ebooks in the same way. Letting it go came naturally. Some people write these stunning reviews, but if I can't manage to say what I want in a paragraph- well, that may or may not get finished either :)
ScoLgo wrote: "Instead, I suggest that you compose an e-mail to , attach your library.csv file, and ask them to please import it for you. It is unlikely to be a perfect import, but will probably get the bulk of your info onto GR - including your ratings and reviews...."Earlier today I found the proper help / contact us button and let them know what happened. I didn't ask them to import for me - that would have been a great idea. If I don't get the answer I want, I'll do as you suggest.
I'm experiencing some of the same slow downs, etc. in my attempt to copy and paste one by one for those that didn't transfer. :-(
Anita wrote: "I'm somewhere between completely compulsive and letting it go, but obviously closer to compulsive. ..."I'm with you Anita!
Barbara wrote: "I think it takes days to get your file! If you use GMail - it will end up in the Social or Updates. I missed it for at least a whole day when it finally did come in! ..."I DO use gmail ... but don't find "social" or "updates" as a folder anywhere.
They SAY they will send an email ... aren't they doing that?
I have all my reviews here, because I've maintained parallel shelves since about 2008. But I want those multiple dates read from Shelfari that aren't in my GR data.
Oh well ... not the end of the world ...
Susie wrote: "Anita, when you first started copying them across I thought they were real time reviews and I was awestruck by your reading prowess!"Ha, ha . . .yeah, if you see me posting more than one review a week, you can bet that either a) the reviews are old or b) I've come down with some illness that has rendered me bed-ridden and tripled my reading time.
I'm so dang slow at reading, but love it so much.
Rina1775 wrote: "Some people write these stunning reviews, but if I can't manage to say what I want in a paragraph- well, that may or may not get finished either :)"I have great admiration for people who are able to enjoy life without obsessing. Unfortunately, my brain seems to like to dwell on things - - and will do so until I somehow resolve the matter. This carries over into a lot of aspects of my life. It's a great quality for work and basically a terrible quality for personal life.
Barbara, I'm glad I'm not the only one!
Anita wrote: "Susie wrote: "Anita, when you first started copying them across I thought they were real time reviews and I was awestruck by your reading prowess!"Ha, ha . . .yeah, if you see me posting more tha..."
Again - we are twins! Love to read but I'm slow getting through a book. I can make 2 to 3 books a month depending on size. Rarely 4 a month.
Anita wrote: "Rina1775 wrote: "Some people write these stunning reviews, but if I can't manage to say what I want in a paragraph- well, that may or may not get finished either :)"I have great admiration for pe..."
I'd like to say I never obsess but alas no. My work is very detailed and complex to the point that I can't obsess in the things I do in my personal life. I would go mad. And your right great for work- terrible quality for a personal life
It feels surreal to not have a Shelfari account anymore. I've been using it since 2007. I know that I won't even care at some point in the future. But, right now, I just feel so sad.