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Book Concierge wrote: "ScoLgo wrote: I am going to post this again because it seems not everyone knows about it...
It is possible to get all your Shelfari info e-mailed to you, (not transferred to Goodreads), by doing..."
BC are you also known as ScoLgo?
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No .... but ScoLgo posted in the middle of a long thread and I thought this helpful hint deserved it's own post, so I copied it here.
This was great timing. I used it and was happy to get ALL the data. FYI, it arrived within 30 minutes. I'm assuming the rush has ebbed.
Also note: I emailed the .tsv file that I had downloaded directly, to support@goodreads.com at the suggestion of other threads. I asked them to load it for me and in less than 24 hours, it was.
BUT! ALL the books (2500+) loaded onto the "read" shelf. At least a third were TBR.
* I'm planning to delete everything.
* Open the file in Excel and carefully sort it by status.
* Delete the TBR books. Save as NEW file.
* email it again asking for it to be loaded.
I didn't look thoroughly but at first glance it looks like when they load it for you, all the data gets loaded like dates, ratings, reviews!! In the past, that hasn't worked well for me using their import tool on site so I'm very happy for this.
I've wanted to purge a good part of the TBR shelf anyways. I figure I'll go through and make a small file from the deleted chunk, going line by line keeping only those I still want to read. Then I'll use the site tool since there's no extra data to lose in import.
Hope these notes are useful to someone else!
Megalion wrote: "This was great timing. I used it and was happy to get ALL the data. FYI, it arrived within 30 minutes. I'm assuming the rush has ebbed.
Also note: I emailed the .tsv file that I had downloaded ..."
Hi Megalion: Instead of e-mailing the TSV file to support, you might consider sending them your 'library.csv' file. I found a lot more information showed up accurately when I sent them that file instead of the Shelfari TSV.
In fact, that was how I found out that you receive files via e-mail. When my 'Move to Goodreads' attempts kept failing miserably, I contacted support at goodreads and they asked me to download as CSV and then e-mail them that file. They performed the upload for me and verified a lot of the info. I'm still missing a few titles due to bad or missing ISBNs, but manually entering a few dozen books instead of 854 is tolerable by comparison!
Of course, YMMV...
HTH
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Guess I'll do it again now that we're on a new week.
Megalion wrote: "This was great timing. I used it and was happy to get ALL the data. FYI, it arrived within 30 minutes. I'm assuming the rush has ebbed.
Also note: I emailed the .tsv file that I had downloaded ..."
FYI, you don't need to delete them to fix it. If you go to my books and select batch edit, it is really simple to switch the books between shelves. The same thing happened to me and I was able to fix it in about 10 minutes.
I am going to post this again because it seems not everyone knows about it...
It is possible to get all your Shelfari info e-mailed to you, (not transferred to Goodreads), by doing the following:
1. On Shelfari, click 'Learn More' on the Pink Banner of Death
2. Near the bottom of the page, click Download your data in a CSV file.
3. Do NOT click any other links on that page.
4. Wait a day or two for an e-mail to arrive.
That e-mail will have some files attached....
'library.csv' will contain all of your book data, (titles, ISBNs, ratings, reviews, etc).
Another file will contain every post you have ever made in your Shelfari groups, (yikes! ;).
Please note that this is a different operation from the TSV file download available on the 'Shelf' tab in your Shelfari account settings.
Anyway, once you have the library.csv file on your computer, you can go through it bit by bit to copy & paste the data you want to enter into Goodreads, (or elsewhere). If you have a lot of books, it will take time, but at least your Shelfari data won't be gone forever. You will also receive a much more complete set of data using this method as opposed to the 'Move to Goodreads' tool.
Hope this helps...