I (more or less) have a GoodReads account

[julesjones]

I set up a GoodReads account last month, mostly because it is apparently now a vital part of author marketing (and yes, I do mean "marketing of author", not just "marketing of author's books"). I then tried to import my LibraryThing catalogue, only to find that the server kept hanging. Since I was not going to manually re-enter 2,262 (and counting) records, I sent off a plea to the helpdesk.

Helpdesk asked me to send along my file. Apparently the problem was that the import server was not expecting 2,264 records (as it had become by then), and it had choked on my import file. Helpdesk got a large chunk in by breaking the file up into several smaller files, although I can tell by the count that a lot are still missing. At least now I know that it was the size of the file, and should be able to fix it.

My file - so big the server couldn't take it...

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[julesjones]

It hasn't uploaded all of mine, but it has given me a list of ISBNs it didn't manage to import. I'll give it overnight to finish crunching, and then poke at it a bit tomorrow. And my actual catalogue remains on LibraryThing, because I want to know the exact edition and for preference print run of my copy...