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Originally Posted by DaltonST
You are mistaken about everything you said with 1 exception: each csv must have a column header for every column. Multiple headers means multiple csv files.
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Thanks for letting me know I was wrong. I will check up on it.
However, the fact that multiple headers mean multiple .csv files and every column needing a header won't work for me in most instances.
An example would be Goodreads. Although I use the sync plugin for some of the shelves, I have way too many to set up rules and use the sync/add plugin. Plus I don't want to ruin my library if I make a rule or sync mistake and it updates everything with it. Therefore I end up using the Goodreads export library .csv file generated from the website.
(if you don't know what I am talking about, it is listed at the bottom of the bookshelf column in the "my books" page under "import/export library")
I have almost 4000 books shelved.
The export library .csv has about 8 to 10 columns I import after editing the .csv.
Because it isn't a good idea to import such a large file, I chunk it up into 100 line pieces. However, the CSV chunker program I use doesn't create new column headers for each piece.
So if I use your program, I would have to import 40 pages, 8 to 10 times each page, then go into each piece and manually create new column headers, or at best remember which bit of data would fit in which column (I can see what would be a title without having the header) and reset the program each time for each column.
I apologize, but this will not do. I will keep it in mind for other times though.