Import upgrade

Mike—welcome Mike!*—has completed a major upgrade to the import system. The improvements are:

• Better user interface.
  
• Import now reads files from LibraryThing competitors, so you can move to us or synch your accounts.
  
• Depending on the site, we pick up tags, reviews, ratings and comments. If you already have the books in your library, you avoiding adding the books again, but synch your user data.
  
• The sites include Anobii, Shelfari and Goodreads. If you use someone else—there are more than 35 of them!—let us know. If the offer export—not all sites do—we can work it out.
• If your file is formatted properly—formatted like the LibraryThing export or any of our competitors'—we now import non-ISBN books.

Import is still based on the idea that—when possible—LibraryThing re-fetches the bibliographic data. This adds another step, an "import queue." But it also allows members to import full records, which no other site exports, and to get high-quality library data, if they want it.

Tell us what you think on Talk. It's probably going to take a while to spell out what it does and doesn't do and to update the old Adding and Importing FAQs.

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*Mike (member: notmydadslibrary) is a new intern up here in Portland. This was a doozy of a first project!