I have accounts at LT and GoodReads. Thanks, Jen! I have never used Shelfari but was planning to, so obviously I searched it up and told me it had merged! I guess it must be a letdown for active users. I totally agree with you. Suddenly my Shelfari disappeared and I lost all the work I have put in and all the friends contacts there. Very disappointing with Amazon. They did start a goodread for me but did not transfer all my material there.
Goodread is also so different from shelfari. In fact I just ordered quite a few Sidney Sheldon books from amazon. Very disappointing with amazon. In fact just orders some sidney Sheldon books from Amazon. Try to transfer to Goodread but doesnt work! Now all my info is gone!
If you got a copy of the csv file you can still try to salvage your data. Try LibraryThing or try contacting the goodreads admins. They have been able to help people retrieve data. Adding and changing policy is very vague and you never know who gets mad and you get warning or be a part of silent change war.
Some asian bookseller puts their phone number in place of ISBN and it becomes a legitimate book etc. So you have added single issue comic and it gets removed because it is against policy and you might get warned , but when same issue is added as a kindle edition it becomes legitimate book.
I have faced several turf wars, for example comic is originally French, but Finnish translation and possible Finnish series is added first thus becoming first edition. Then french or other original edition is added and Finnish series is removed because original series order is correct.
Also few Finnish or other translated editions have been removed to put original edition first. Also site being American and people wanting yo keep series list short, thus American series becomes correct one author has made few books and has gained success and then 3rd in series us first to be translated and becomes series number 1.
It also affects other way around. Also there is too many main categories ebook kindle, nook, audiobook, audioCD, mp3 CD, Audible, downloadable mp3 etc. So there inconsistencies between type and ISBN and possible picture. I have corrected several of them to match, so changed paperback cover to corresponding audiobook or type to ISBN and caused again flagged changes and earned warnings.
So when you do a lot of free work to add and correct data you might get warnings and wont get reason why you were warned. Nowadays I dong give a damn is data correct or not.
I look ISBN from my book or copy it from internet based on name and pick first image on google search, because it is much easier that trying to find is that ISBN from which type audiobook and is that image from hardcover, softcover or book club only cover.
I tried shelfari few years ago, but there was only few Finnish books I decided it takes too much time to transfer my books manually. Tried to create riflebooks account, but my registration stopped on phase 1. Tried also librarything , and it had quite good selection, but I like to choose correct edition I have read not a list that has same book with same ISBN added multiple times.
It is owned by Amazon so they should have money and resources to implement features that readers have asked, reread, better search engine, features that people miss from shelfari, half star review etc. People dislike communism yet we have only one main operating system windows, one type cell phone touchscreen , two types operating systems Android and iphone, one search engine google etc of course there are few smaller options, but those seem to be no acceptable if you want to be part of community.
I was away from shelfari for almost a year because I was in training and then sag the redirect… then wondered what happened… and then… got sad. Goodreads organized by shelves but their organization is not as nice as either library thing or shelfari. It not as user friendly in my opinion but definitely superior for cataloguing. I never received an email notifying me that Shelfari was closing, and the site appears to be dead. That was the only record of all the books I have read for the last two decades.
I am incredibly upset by the loss of this information. Is there any way for me to retrieve it? All I want is the precious csv file and I will be happy. I doubt it. You could try contacting goodreads and ask, but it looks like all the data is gone and now when you access the shelfari site it redirects to goodreads. I feel bad for you because I can imagine the devastation in losing all your data. As angry as I was at it shutting down, I did receive multiple emails from them warning me that it was shutting down and the home page had a large banner with shutdown information for a good 6 months before it actually closed.
You could try contacting goodreads support and see what they tell you but I suspect that you will have to start over. Oh goddamn, Amazon. There went all the data. Not from amazon neither from shelfari about it in any point.
Only message I have ever gotten was Shelfari was in , the joining in notice. I know way too well how it feels. Actually I emailed support goodreads. So all is well on my end, I have my data and am a happy camper. Having to not only add and group, but also review all the books again in GR is impractical and a nuisance.
But I guess one cannot expect any form of courtesy from Amazon. Well, when Shelfari was shutting down they had a message up for about 6 months with instructions on how to transfer to goodreads by exporting your csv file. Not the same as automatically transferring but they did offer something. Granted, I spend a good two weeks fixing all the errors in my file.
I would contact goodreads support, one person posted the email address and ask them if they can recover your file. Someone else here did that and was able to get the file with their reviews. Hopefully you get some of that back. I agree!! I loved Shelfari and Goodreads has not been the same.
I had the best virtual book club where we all had characters in which we read and discussed British classics in real time…. I can tell you I am NOT going to re-write book reviews!
One of the best features in Shelfari which I misses most is a source for list of characters in novels which I find very helpful when reading especially novels with a lot of characters. I do not find Goodread of any help and in fact feel it is only an advertisement gadget. All the trouble I took to review books which i have read have gone to waste too.
I just came across this thread, as my life was topsy-turvy and I had not logged on to Shelfari in about a year. As many pointed out here Shelfari was preferred by many.
I really liked the character lists, as well, and the user interface was highly superior and much more attractive, as well as user friendly. It would have been better if it had merged the other way. I just decided to check out online to see if there is any news about it coming back — and I came across this site. I played with it at least a couple times a week checking stats and discussions, entering information, looking at my groups for book recommendations.
There were so many cool searches where you could find books being read by friends and their reviews and communicate so easily. I had some good friends on Shelfari, too. In Good Reads, the categories are all off and I lost my personal custom categories — now they give me hundreds to choose from. I just gave up and use GR only for logging books read. I was so disappointed that Amazon would remove Shelfari this instead of marketing it as they did with Good Reads — which is just a cold, strange entity in comparison.
You wonder if anyone at Amazon used Shelfari as much as the rest of us did. I feel your sadness Starlet. When that started happening I thought it was a bad sign and then heard the rumors of it being completely shut down and then the sad day came and it was.
I started the grueling task of transferring my shelf to Goodreads before it was official but it was extremely time consuming. I, like many, miss every aspect of Shelfari. I have managed to find some of my friends, but not all, which is disheartening as well. There is just something about Goodreads that feels less friendly, more gimmicky, and just overall it feels congested, busy and not as user friendly as Shelfari was. I basically use it to track the books I have read and have found a few of my friends that have similar tastes which has always been a helpful tool when choosing what to read next.
For me Shelfari just felt like a small town where all your reader friends lived and got together and chatted about books, authors, what we like and dislike without any judgment when they differed. I had used Shelfari and was so upset when they shut it down still am. My books did not transfer to Goodreads well at all. Finally got annoyed enough that I shut my Goodreads account down. I have found that I have not read nearly as much since Shelfari was taken away from us. I am upset that I had been gone from my Shelfari account for so long and am just now finding this out!
So sad, I loved Shelfari. I never got any mail that Shelfari is being killed. On searching the web came to know about this. There is no chance to retrieve the data stored in Shelfari right? You could ask Goodreads help to see if they have access to your data. Hi Deepika, I emailed support goodreads. It is not perfect some data is missing, including reviews , but at least you would have a list of books. Hopefully they can help you out too. Thank you so much. Mailing them. Hopefully I get a list of the books I read that is more than enough.
I had compiled a pretty extensive book reading list on LinkedIn, then Shelfari took it over, and recently I tried to locate the list. Or is it? Does anyone know of a way to retrieve books linked to the RIP Shelfari account? You could try contact goodreads help since they took over from shelfari but I suspect it may be too late.
Hi Eric, I emailed support goodreads. Hopefully they can still help you out too! I only found out about this today. Years late, yeah, but they never informed me, despite having a Shelfari account. Internet stuff just goes away. The internet is all laissez fair capitalism and abuse now. Hi Jen, Would you consider checking out our new app Whatbook?
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Frankly the whole process of searching and adding a book is more troublesome than LT. The only major good point is that you can add as many books as you like for free.
A few stores in various towns have sent the owner a thingamabob that allows you to see if a certain book is available at the store, as well as its price. You could look into it for your own store, if you care to.
Like Like. Shelfari remains an independent company and is fully committed to enabling e-commerce from all sources. Our relationship with Amazon as an Associate is independent of their investment in us. We currently link to Amazon because they have the most robust platform to allow us to start making money of links.
Over time we will add more book sellers. Most of web that you use every day needed capital to be successful and create a world class product.
Shelfari and our competitors are not exempt from this reality. Our Amazon presented an interesting opportunity for us as a strategic investor — they have such a large presence in on-line books that we had to take the opportunity seriously.
Three, if you are dependent on Amazon, they can destroy you with a change in their API or affiliate policy, or by implementing your features inside their own site and taking all your business for themselves.
Amazon now owns part of Shelfari. Not all of it, but they have bought some of it, they probably ahve a rep on the board, and influence its policy and direction. It builds a sense of community and makes it feel less like an extension of a behemoth. First I must say before seeing your site, I knew nothing about Shelfari.
Where you decide to get that capital is up to you. The site is free to members and has been developed without outside capital.
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