kiwidude,
Well, I didn't die off.... I have been very very busy using your Import List to set up a db for my wife's 2432 books
You were correct about Goodreads requiring an ISBN number now. That is a change from when I used it for my self about 2 years ago, so your Import List was the perfect solution at the perfect time!
Years ago she had a paper list and eventually I helped convert her to a spreadsheet, where she chose to have each author on a separate spreadsheet. She had indicator columns for books 'read' and books 'owned but not read'.
So my task was, author by author, to copy the 'read', 'owned', and 'futures' onto 3 separate CSV files and then use Import List to enter Calibre.
Your program worked flawlessly and of course picked up duplicates that entered her list, primarily due to anthologies. I would hate to think of manually entering all those 2432 books
The largest amount of time was spent on downloading the metadata. I quickly found that I could not rely on batch metadata downloading. Too many errors and no way to catch them before they over-wrote my book data. Some errors were caused by my wife's occasional misspelling, but the biggest problem was Calibre sometimes selecting the incorrect metadata from the choices available, or the completely wrong metadata, or couldn't find data. In retrospect, it seemed often to prefer metadata that contained say 2 books, rather than the single specified book.
So I spent many many hours manually downloading metadata and covers. In fact I have a couple of hundred more to edit before I'm finished.
Anyway, I appreciate the program and would not have attempted the task with out it. Many thanks (and Paypal thanks coming
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PS. Hope you get to see some of the Olympics in person. I live in Pennsylvania, but my daughter now lives in East Molesey and is hoping to see some events, but the prices are awful
