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pineapplesf t1_ja2ynq3 wrote

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It's incredibly buggy, slow to update, gives bad recommendations (even with my 4k ratings), and is essentially just a data mine for Amazon.

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Illustrious_Drop_605 OP t1_ja30p13 wrote

Ah I see, that's too bad!

I just had a quick Google and I saw there are nice Export options at least, so you could quickly generate a .csv file if you ever wanted to backup/migrate your data and use a different tool. It sounds like you've put a lot of effort into it!

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pineapplesf t1_ja31fgs wrote

So the thing with their export feature (which is required by the eu) is that it's buggy and they made it hard for others. When I tried to import it to two different places, less than 10% of my books followed. Adding by hand thousands of books is a huge time investment. At this point, when I do it I'll probably move them to Gemini or something similar rather than trust another website like Goodreads.

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bghanoush t1_ja3sczq wrote

When I moved to the Storygraph I used a Goodreads export. If I remember correctly, I just had to delete some extraneous columns and (maybe?) re-arrange some others. It was certainly worth doing over recreating the data from scratch, and I didn't have 4000 books!

I agree that Goodreads could do better with recommendations, but I keep wishing that Netflix's recommendations would come up to the Goodreads standard.

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