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Originally Posted by sakura-panda
I'm signed up with Goodreads, but I find it slow and cumbersome to use and mostly leave it alone. I do go in sometimes when I'm looking for book reviews, and it's fine for that, but to enter in my own data is time-consuming and somewhat painful and I've given up on it.
I have not tried any of the other ones and just stick with a text-based list and Calibre to keep track of books I have read and own.
GoodReads also has an Android app that I have been thinking of trying, to see if I would use it more, but I keep forgetting to download it!
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Don't know if you're interested in pursuing it, but if the majority of your books have ISBNs in calibre, you can generate a csv catalog with the just ISBN numbers and import it into Goodreads. You can also do it with title/author but it seems less accurate, and you also have to change one of the column headings in the csv file but I can't remember which and I don't have the file in front of me.
On the import page in Goodreads there is a sample csv file you can download to see which headings it can utilize, and you can get quite detailed in your import. I've got a template that I use that includes shelf assignments. I create the csv with calibre, open both it and my template as spreadsheets, and copy the columns into the correct places.