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Garrett Dimon replied on September 05, 2008 16:38 to the question "Sifter & Email" in Next Update:

No real progress on email into Sifter, yet. Although, once we start adding new features, it's right near the top of the list.

Harold replied on September 05, 2008 16:22 to the question "Sifter & Email" in Next Update:

Garrett, this is huge for us too. I love that our clients can use email to bounce communication back and forth and log it all into Sifter. I noticed you posted this 4 months ago, any progress on this side of things?

Nathan Borror replied on August 29, 2008 17:03 to the problem "Cap on number of books?" in Readernaut:

Okay folks there is a new importer. Go check it out and let me know what you think http://readernaut.com/books/import/

Nathan Borror replied on August 28, 2008 19:28 to the problem "Cap on number of books?" in Readernaut:

Sorry for the importer problems, the cap is 100 right now but I'm hoping to lift it tonight (8/28).

Simon Scarfe replied on August 28, 2008 09:45 to the problem "Cap on number of books?" in Readernaut:

I THINK that this is my problem, I've got 147 books on librarything, it imports about 100.

It might be that these are queued, as stated at the top. But if this is the case, some actual feedback indicating that would be extra helpful.

Also, the importer tries and fails to import the 'TITLE' field. Obviously not THAT important, but slightly scary when you get the import failed message at the bottom.

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tiffehr reported a problem in Readernaut on August 27, 2008 17:31:

Cap on number of books?

Nathan, you e-mailed me a while ago about some issues with the importer not grabbing my full LibraryThing import file due to the browser session timing out. Is that still going on? I tried the importer today, and it seemed much faster. But my account still says I only have 257 books, rather than the 447 LibraryThing says I have. In fact, 257 was the cap before it says it grabbed another 97 at my last import.

Any suggestions?

A comment on the idea "Bulk import of books" in Readernaut:

Sent via email. – Jason Nassi, on August 27, 2008 04:43

Nathan Borror replied on August 27, 2008 04:32 to the idea "Bulk import of books" in Readernaut:

@Jason - sorry for your troubles. Could you send me the ISBN list you exported? I'd like to see why the others failed. Email it to nathan@readernaut.com if you don't mind.

Thanks man.

Jason Nassi replied on August 27, 2008 04:14 to the idea "Bulk import of books" in Readernaut:

Love the fact that an import was added... unfortunately, I've been using Booxter to store my readings, and while it has export capabilities, I couldn't figure out how those export tags mapped to the services available for import (LibraryThing, Anobii, and GoodReads).

I tried to just dump the ISBN numbers into the ISBN import box, but only 10% of ~130 ISBNs could be found. I wound up entering the rest by hand in the Search Books field... oh well, one time data entry and it's done now.

If it helps for testing purposes, I can provide the ISBN list that I was trying to enter..?

Chris Harrison replied on August 18, 2008 19:28 to the idea "Bulk import of books" in Readernaut:

I use Shelfari which exports books as an XLS file. Fortunately, I didn't have many books in my account (<100>t a big deal to manually add each book, but for users with a larger library, it might be an issue.

A comment on the idea "Bulk import of books" in Readernaut:

Most definitely, I'll have this available very soon. – Nathan Borror, on August 18, 2008 19:28

Alex S. Jones replied on August 18, 2008 19:22 to the idea "Bulk import of books" in Readernaut:

I've used a WordPress plugin to track my reading for a couple of years now, and while it doesn't have an easy export mechanism, I could easily run a query on the DB to get the ISBNs/ASINs and drop them into a CSV. Would it be possible for me to upload a custom CSV? If so, what order should columns be in? What other data would be needed?

Here's the archive: http://www.silverspider.com/book-arch...
The WP Plugin: http://www.sozu.co.uk/software/amm/

Thanks!

Kev Mears replied on August 15, 2008 07:07 to the idea "Bulk import of books" in Readernaut:

Cracking- just tried it. 130+ books added.

Cheers for doing this so quickly.

Nathan Borror replied on August 15, 2008 05:54 to the idea "Bulk import of books" in Readernaut:

CSV book imports are now available for Anobii, GoodReads, and LibraryThing. Navigate to Account > Import Books

Any books you've already added will be safe from the import. The import may take a while depending on how large your library is.

Kev Mears replied on August 14, 2008 07:45 to the idea "Bulk import of books" in Readernaut:

I'm using anobii.com, which allows export in 3 formats. csv,excel2003 or above and html

I can't see an option to upload a file here, but I'd be happy to send you my data.

tiffehr replied on August 14, 2008 06:25 to the idea "Bulk import of books" in Readernaut:

I don't know about Kev Mears, but I have a rather extensive library in LibraryThing. It'd be rad to rock both.

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Garrett Dimon replied on July 17, 2008 01:08 to the question "Release Date" in Next Update:

After some soul-searching and planning, it's looking like August was a little aggressive. We'll be getting a few people in on alpha version in mid July and run a private Beta through August and September.

A comment on the idea "Lat-long, please?" in Brightkite:

Heh... nevermind. It was malformed email headers on my part :-) LOVE brightkite! keep up the good work! – lnxcwby, on July 06, 2008 23:19