We have talked about things associated with goodreads before.
Most recently I gave you a deeper look athow to track your book collection in goodreads.
What Is Goodreads Good For?
Two things, in my opinion.
Then I can use that as a shopping or borrowing list.
I love libraries, but wandering aimlessly for interesting books is something I can seldom find the time for.
The Take Away
This is really what we are here for.
How can I take my goodreads information with me?
Couldn’t I just browse to the goodreads site on the phone?
So, back to exporting the data.
That turns out to be easy.
Click themy bookslink at the top of the page.
At the bottom of the book list is a list of tools, including animport/exportoption.
On the right, an option to export to a csv file.
You’ll be presented with a confirmation dialog.
That’s probably a little over the top, as no changes are being made.
Nonetheless, boldly clickOK.
Save it somewhere you could find it again, and move on.
launch the file in Excel and take a look.
The data is all there in a tabular fashion, but it’s pretty awful to look at.
The first thing is to pare it back to the columns we are actually interested in.
I still have books in the list that I have already read.
Sort by theExclusive Shelfcolumn, and delete those ones.
That way we can walk through the shelves with a lot less bother.
I’m pretty sure you know how to do that.
