Everything Booklikes & Leafmarks discussion

See https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... ; major amount of amazon data is being imported.

Given probable issues and bugs this might cause, might be good idea to make sure you have a good csv backup.

And site undergoing maintenance https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Am I the only one who really doesn't want anyone to know which books I own and which I don't? It's nobody's business, and I've reached a stage where I have so many books that I rarely buy them. (Borrow from library and buy only if I think I'll want to reread again and again.) I have a huge stack of books I got for free from my library (discharged books) and that I plan to pass onto others when I'm done reading them.

Mirkat wrote: "Am I the only one who really doesn't want anyone to know which books I own and which I don't? It's nobody's business, and I've reached a stage where I have so many books that I rarely buy them. I..."

I've deliberately avoided making that info public.

Mirkat wrote: "Am I the only one who really doesn't want anyone to know which books I own and which I don't? It's nobody's business, and I've reached a stage where I have so many books that I rarely buy them. (..."

I don't think there are many people on GR who want to keep that info private from everyone, although a private profile hides it somewhat. Or if there are a lot of people, presumably they use GR for all sorts of things but don't have a booklist.

Randolph wrote: ""Owned Books" under "More Options" doesn't work anymore. Try it."

I spent so much time on that. If only I'd created an owned shelf instead. At the time I had a good reason for not adding to my number of shelves. *sigh*

Have these things been reported in the Feedback group?

And, does anybody have an accurate date (or a good estimate) for when our .cvs files were last unsullied by Amazon overrides? Thanks.

Lisa wrote: "And, does anybody have an accurate date (or a good estimate) for when our .cvs files were last unsullied by Amazon overrides? Thanks."

Official reinstatement date for full amazon data feed was Dec. 20, 2013, according to library group threads. But. pretty hefty batches tested September-December 2013 (really odd timing considering all the data migrating to cloudfront servers, csv files, cintent deletions and everything else going on because any errors could have come from any of it -- but that holiday season was closing in). ('m personally convinced amazon was lightly screwing with data at least as far back as April 2013 but no proof as I asked them to revoke my librarian status as soon as amazon buy was announced and after repeat requests by that time they had).

The fact that new tests showed same issues as goodreads always had with amazon feed has not stopped 'em.

Thanks, D.A. Bummer. I wish Leafmarks had gotten started sooner. Ah well.