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In 2022 it will be five years since Rebecca (rebeccanyc) passed away. As many of you know, she was an active member here in Club Read and in some other groups here on LT.

As a tribute to her, I set up a thread with a plan to read all the books she still wanted to read with all her friends here at LT. You are welcome to join, even if you did not have the pleasure of knowing her. Because one thing you can be sure of: Rebecca had exceptionally good taste and read a wide variety of books, so there is probably something for everyone.

You can find the HOPE TO READ SOON: a tribute to Rebeccanyc thread here.

The Victorian tavern is up: https://www.librarything.com/topic/337959

Q1 reads threads to follow today, together with the Graphic novels thread.

>1 labfs39: Pardon the non-useful post, but ... I love the group picture. It gorgeous.

For anyone interested: The Graphic stories - Part 1 is up: https://www.librarything.com/topic/338041

Plus the two Victorian Q1 Read-alongs.

>4 dchaikin: Thanks, Dan. I wanted to find something different and in the public domain, of course. This was a subtle nod to the Asian Book Challenge as well.

1st of the 2022 Questions (on the Questions for the Avid Reader thread) ls up!

As an adjunct to the Graphic Stories thread, I have created a list of works recommended there and on my 2021 thread, where the idea for a graphic novel thread was first discussed.

The list is Club Read's Graphic Stories Recommendations.

Kerry (avatiakh) and I have created a new group dedicated to Holocaust Literature. We have created threads for discussing articles, exposing the fakes, graphic novels, juvenile literature, films & documentaries, the Righteous Among Nations, and more. If this topic interests you please stop by and join the discussions and/or create a thread to track your Holocaust-related reading.

In a bid to be inclusive of friendly lurkers (from 75 Books Group, etc), I had left the group open so that you did not need to be a member to post. There has been enough ugly spam, however, that I have closed the group and you must be a member to post. Hopefully that will help. Please let me know if this causes a problem.

hmm. Not a bad thought. My personal preference is to have it open, and deal with the spam, which hasn't been too bad in the past. It does seem a bit worse these past two weeks.

>10 labfs39: Urgh. I had to join to post this objection. :-) The trouble for me is that I use Your Groups for the less active groups, and if I join Club Read then it overwhelms the list (75 Books is even worse). Obviously I will remain joined if I have to; otherwise I can't post to my own thread. Also, I spent years in 75 Books, and a couple of old acquaintances from that group have commented on my Club Read thread and now they can't w/o an extra hurdle. And are spammers stopped so easily?

Hmm, that's what I was afraid of. I don't want to exclude folks. I think what I'll do is open it back up and give it a few weeks. Perhaps the spam will die down as the beginning of the year frenzy eases.

Thanks for the feedback.

>13 labfs39: as a non-member who follows several threads here, I appreciate you changing it back. Thank you so much!

>13 labfs39: :-)

>13 labfs39: Maybe revisit this in another month? Because it's not be fair to make more moderator work for labfs39 if we keep getting an influx of spammers and trolls.

For folks who don't want to join, is there a workaround to having all the posts show up in your feed—starring the ones you want to follow and sorting them based on that, maybe?

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>16 lisapeet: workaround
I star individual threads that I want to follow in CR & 75. I use Your Groups for groups that I want to follow as a whole, generally groups with relatively few members and infrequent topic-centric posts. I can devise a different system if necessary.

>17 avaland: the socialization of the whole group creates a kind of invisible net
For the years that I kept a thread in the 75 Books group, I followed (and occasionally posted on) a number of threads in Club Read also. I switched to Club Read for the calmer atmosphere, though I still follow a number of threads in 75 Books. My impression is this is fairly common. Aside from spammers who are by nature invasive, people seem to respect the culture of Club Read. Closing the group strikes me as a tad too clubby; it sends a signal of unwelcome to people who are respectful, while as a practical matter doesn't actually exclude people who are disrespectful.

>18 qebo: And herein lies the explanation. For you Club Read is just a calmer and smaller version of the 75 group. So you treat it as such. As a result you see nothing wrong in telling us all that if you join, you will see all our threads in your Your Groups and that’s a big problem for you - because you still think of 75 terms. :)

Most of the members of the club did not join it just because it is a scaled down version of something else. We want to see each others’ threads because it is a community - and every new member is welcome and we try to make them feel wanted here. You like hanging around here because of what the club is but you don’t want to be part of the club - because you will be inconvenienced. Which of course is your choice but it still is not how most members use the group.

At the end of the day, the Club will become what its members want it to become. It it drifts enough from what it always has been and truly turn into just a smaller version of 75, I suspect that something else will arise to replace it. Life continues, things change.

>17 avaland: pretty much that. :) Where is the like button when one needs it. :)

That's actually what I was getting at in terms of a workaround—that it's not necessary to see every single threads from the group in your feed even if you join, so why not join? It's a pretty small bit of friction and makes a moderator's life a lot easier.

I must apologize as I went back to look at the settings of 2009, 2010 and 2021 and the forum, in those years, was set to "anyone can post". We didn't have a spam problem in the early years, though. It's interesting though to look at the membership lists in the two first years. Again, I apologize (my memory is not entirely to be relied on these days). I have removed my passionate address and am down off the soapbox :-)

>21 avaland: Yeah, in the decade or so I've been around, it's never been join-to-post, i.e. I've always been able to post on CR threads. I set things off on a distracting course with my initial aack! to the impact on my method of organization (truly I'm not disdainful of joining; I just don't like unrelated information mixed together and had arrived at a pragmatic solution using limited tools). The more significant problem with join-to-post is its impact on the crossover activity between groups. Many of us follow individuals wherever they create a thread, so 75ers post to CR threads and vice versa. I can see forcing me to join the group where I've created a thread, but forcing occasional visitors to join the group would discourage interaction that has previously been straightforward. What to do about spam, I don't know...

btw, the first two years of Club Read (2009, 2010) are no longer dormant, as I went into them to check the settings and left a post that I did so. I thought a few of you might like to look at your 2009 reading list OR wax sentimental over some of members we had back then who seem to be no longer active on LT.

>24 avaland: Well that was fun. Just spending about 20 minutes on one year, but what a lot there. Some things never seem to change: Swine Flu anyone? It was fun reading the Nobel Prize predictions, and following some of the discussions, like the ones on the never ending problem of falling behind.
Thanks for posting this and will go back later.

>24 avaland: I miss a lot of people. bobmcconnaughey posted a lot on my first thread and was so kind and encouraging, including private messages. He left an impression. Later StephenTX was here for a bit and I really miss him. But many others too. On my first thread akeela was the first poster. And fannyprice, polotrupos and visibleghost posted among many others. I meant to lend polotropos a book that I had hard time acquiring, but he never sent it back. So it was not a loan as I intended. He sent me a different book instead. 🙂

>26 dchaikin: Dan, you mentioned that word I can't cope with...!

>24 avaland: >26 dchaikin: I wasn't in the initial group, but I think I joined as soon as Club Read was "open" to the public. I recognize the names of many of the originals. I will say that when I first joined I was very intimidated since everyone seemed so highly intelligent and were all so good at expressing their views on books. I think I mentioned my fears about trying to get my opinions about what I was reading into writing to such company as the Club Read members in one of my early posts, and Dan you commented on my thread basically saying, not to worry, it was all fine, and reassuring me about how welcoming everyone was. And it was true. So Thanks!

>25 SassyLassy: It has been very interesting to observe the coming and going, or the longevity of clubs. I've started a fair number (with varying success); and have attempted to revive a few. The "seeding" of Club Read was crucial for it's success, me thinks. We've lost some great readers (around the advent of FB, but also because of life changes) but we have gained, too.

>26 dchaikin: The risk in loaning books - you never know if it will come back (and if it does, in what condition). I am perfectly happy to gift books. Loaning is a different matter.

>26 dchaikin: I also miss many of them. After I saw Akeela's name there, I sent her a little note on FB, and checking now, I see she had left a little note. She said she popped in briefly on LT in December. I invited to pop in here anytime (cross fingers!)

>27 AlisonY: I think you need to take that up with Jane Austen. : )

>28 arubabookwoman: ok, that’s awesome.

>31 avaland: that would be really nice. i quit fb and so lost my limited contact with her and janeajones and FlorenceArt (who visited recently!)

You all had to open that rabbit hole, didn't you :( I had not seen around LT some of the people I used to talk back in 2010 and 2012 (I was not here 2009 and I skipped 2011) in years... deebee1 for example. Now I miss them :(

And apparently we used to run challenges at least one of the years (which I had forgotten... even though I did run the threads in 2012)... :)

My daughter, cabegley, joined LT in 2006…not sure when she joined Club Read. She encouraged me to join in 2013, and then a few years later she dropped off. She has too many life commitments. She still belongs to two book clubs, and reads loads of books, but I can’t convince her to come back.

>34 NanaCC: Yes, she was one of the seedlings, I believe. Still miss her. We had a lot of reading in common back then (the kids must be through college now!)

Not sure if she was here for the beginning, but I really miss spiral sheep. I met her on Reading Globally, and she opened my eyes to so much that is out there and we had some great discussions about books. i remember she wasn't feeling well. i so hope she is ok and just in the middle of life and being busy

>37 cindydavid4: Me too. We had a lot of interesting conversations in the Category Challenge group. When I came back after a six months hiatus because of my mother's illness, I was saddened to see that Spiralsheep wasn't active in the group anymore. I really hope that she is ok.

>37 cindydavid4:, >38 MissBrangwen: She had been adding books up to June of 2021; you can always leave messages....

>39 avaland: yeah that was 6 months ago, Ive left a message, maybe Ill try again

>1 labfs39: That makes sense, Especially when I just joined.

>41 Innes: Welcome Innes. Please feel free to introduce yourself on the Introductions thread. Do you think you will start a thread on Club Read? Please feel free to ask any questions you might have. Happy Reading!

I found a nice LT wiki help page today called How to do Fancy Things in Your Posts. It explains everything from how to resize images so they don't explode your post to numbered lists. Even experienced LTers might find some new tips, and a definite go-to for new folks.

>43 labfs39: One thing that they don't mention about touchstones, but that I use pretty much all the time, unless the book has a super unique title—if you get a lot of possible titles in the Touchstones list when you click on "(others)" you can do a regular control-F search within the list for the author or exact title you want.

For any interested readers: Today (Friday March 4 only) Powell's is contributing 20% of their sales receipts to aid for Ukraine. Check out their website if interested.

>45 LadyoftheLodge: Thank you for letting us know. I placed an order. I love Powell's, and when I lived in Seattle even attended a LT meetup there.

>45 LadyoftheLodge: thanks just ordered off my tbr list. shipping was one dollar per book!

>44 lisapeet: oh wow, that is helpful! thanks

>47 cindydavid4: I also placed two orders from my TBR list. I am awaiting their arrival! I would love to visit Powell's some day.

Did anyone here recommend this book - Another Language by Eileen Chong? I ordered it 2 weeks ago and don’t remember why.

World Book Day today! Ten free ebooks on Amazon.

>52 LadyoftheLodge: how can we find them?

Google ‘Amazon’ and ‘World Book Day’ and follow the link. They don’t advertise them well on the site (hoping you’ll buy a few others before you find them no doubt).

>54 Yells: I found out about it through an email from Amazon.

>53 dchaikin: Here's a link: https://www.amazon.com/article/read-the-world-2022/
that should also allow other countries to find their sites to get the free books as well. I think they are available in Canada until the 27th. It's not just one day, you probably have about a week.

>52 LadyoftheLodge: Thanks, Cheryl. I don't often read e-books, but I downloaded several of the World Book Day choices to try.

The Ardent Swarm: A Novel by Manai, Yamen
North to Paradise: A Memoir by Umar, Ousman
Where the Desert Meets the Sea: A Novel by Sonne, Werner
The Easy Life in Kamusari (Forest Book 1) by Miura, Shion
The Caiman by Manrique, María Eugenia

And I learned that as an Amazon Prime member, I am eligible for one free pre-order Kindle book a month, so I downloaded

American Seoul: A Memoir by Rho, Helena

Thanks everyone. I picked up several too.

>57 labfs39: where the desert meets the sea looks really interesting. Its a time period I should know better,

Just after ordering another Ukrainian book from its publisher and continuing to doodle on the internet, I ran across this: Rozmova Book Club blog/web page http://rozmovabookclub.blogspot.com/p/rozmova-book-list.html It's a long-running group that is "dedicated to promoting literature on Ukrainian themes in English." It has an interesting and varied list of books they have read and discussed since 2015.

I thought some of you might be interested....

Regarding novels from Ukraine, my wife recently downloaded, and very much enjoyed the novel Voroshilovgrad by Serhiy Zhadian. She liked it so well that she then ordered a print copy. I'm looking forward to reading it sometime soon.

>60 avaland: that list looks terrific. Thanks.

Ada Limón Named 24th U.S. Poet Laureate.... Bio is here:
https://poets.org/poet/ada-limon?mc_cid=853c368e39&mc_eid=8cf61ba0b2

>63 avaland: Cool news! I find her accessible and interesting, basically my sweet spot for poetry. Well, I guess that's most people's, but anyway—she did great interview on the Tin House podcast, almost 2-1/2 hours but it doesn't drag at all (though I did it over the course of a few walks, so it may have benefited from being broken up like that). Added bonus: a cameo by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Congratulations to Annie Ernaux for her being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

I read and reviewed her first book, Cleaned Out in 2009.

>65 avaland: Congratulations, indeed! Lois, you may remember that I wrote an article for Belletrista about Annie Ernaux in 2010 and reviewed three of her books:

Trio: Three by Annie Ernaux

>65 avaland: >66 kidzdoc: Excellent news!

>65 avaland: >66 kidzdoc: >67 thorold: where should I begin?

Thanks for sharing, Lois! And for your review and link Darryl!

hmm. I've never read anything by her, but coincidentally last week (not knowing she was being considered for a Nobel) I checked a book by her out of the library. Will definitely have to read it now.

>65 avaland: I am glad Annie Ernaux won the Prize this year. First French woman to win the prize as it has been said all over the media in France (or at least the ones I listen to...).
I've audio-read Les Années/The Years not so long ago (in 2020 according to LT) and absolutely loved it. After that, I decided I had to read more by her and bought La femme gelée/A Frozen Woman, but have not read it since then. The Prize is a good incentive to actually read it!

>68 dchaikin: I guess the safest place to start might be her most famous book, Les Années/The Years that spans over five decades and is an oversee of her life (and her generation, both are intricated), as well as touching on the "transfuge de classe" issue that is so important in her work as well (I have not found an equivalent in English, basically being born in the working class and, thanks to education, becoming an adult in the middle class).
I hope you''ll enjoy reading her, and I would be curious to see other's reviews of her work. I feel her work speaks a lot to French women, so it's really interesting to see her winning an international prize such as the Nobel Prize.

>66 kidzdoc: I didn't remember that, Darryl (but then I don't remember many things these days). We were way ahead of the crowd back then :-)

>69 arubabookwoman: How fortuitous!

Was just on the Nobel site....

"The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022

Annie Ernaux "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory"

>71 avaland: I hope that this is nothing more than the forgetfulness we all experience as we get older, Lois.

I'm very glad for Ernaux!

when do people decide to move their thread up? Mine isn't as big as others and I wasn't sure if there was a point that I neede to redo it or not. thanks

>74 cindydavid4: Up to you. The site will give you an option to connect the two threads automatically after 150 messages are reached (the Continue in a new thread link at the bottom of a thread). I start a new one when the old one takes a long time to load and/or when I am so hopelessly behind that I want a new start (both applied for my latest restart).

If you want to keep a single thread through the whole year, you can also do that. Your thread, your rules. :)

I redo mine if 1) people start to complain that it loads slow 2) I reach about 250 posts 3) I want a fresh start. I would say do it if you want, but don't feel compelled.

ok thanks. Ill just keep it as is then

I keep meaning to do mine but everyone puts so much work into starting anew that I feel overwhelmed.

>78 dianeham: I just went very low key on my new thread. As I keep saying - your thread, your rules :)

Yeah I see people repeating there lists from thread to thread. I don't want to do that much work! if I do change, Ill repeat my one book list and star requirements

>80 cindydavid4: It's not a lot of work to repeat. I just did a new thread with a half dozen lists -- all you have to do is edit the post in the old thread, copy the whole thing and paste it into a new post on the new thread. The basic copy-paste took less than 10 minutes. The fact that I hadn't updated any of those lists in a couple of months is a different story...

>81 ELiz_M: Unless you want to do touchstones and half your titles default on something else of course and you need to fix them :)

>82 AnnieMod: LOL. Like the touchstone for The Blue Sky goes to Sky the Blue Fairy by Daisy Meadows

Hi all, a bunch of us have decided to do a group read of Woolf's A Room of One's Own in February 2023. If anyone else would like to join us the more the merrier!

sure! where are you at?

>86 cindydavid4: Once the 2023 CR thread is up I'll post a thread, Cindy. Came from a discussion on Woolf on Beth's thread.

hee thats two months from now. Pls remind me I know Ill forget!:)

>85 AlisonY: Thanks Alison for taking the lead on this. I will be there, for sure (but won't mind a reminder as >88 cindydavid4:!) :)

Will issue a reminder! So long as I remember....!

>90 AlisonY: Ha!

looking for the Wolf Hall read group we did awhile back. cant find it in author reads. any ideas?

Is this what you are looking for?

>93 stretch: yes!!! thanks

As 2022 comes to a close, so does my first year as admin of Club Read. Before I begin setting up Club Read 2023 (to be released around Dec. 25), I would like to solicit feedback on CR22. Are there things you thought worked well or you wish had worked differently? Feel free to post thoughts here or message me privately.

Also, do we have ideas for theme threads for next year? This year we had the Victorian threads, Graphic Stories, La Cucina, The Greenhouse, the tribute to rebeccanyc, a Decameron Buddy Read, and others. If you would like to curate a themed thread next year, please let me know, and I will give you early access to CR23 so you can get set up. So far, Diane (dianeham) has offered to do a poetry thread.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the conversations this year. It was a robust year for Club Read. I hope to see you all back again for our 15th year!

Lisa

Edited to fix typo

Gosh Lisa I dunno,everything here has been so wonderful! I love all the individual threads, I even put my own in. Might do so next year, tho I still prefer the discussion on the Reading thread. I love all of the books and the chatter and discussions, the laughs. Love how friendly everyone is here, and welcoming. I do wish there was an easy way to find threads and groups but I not sure if you have anything to do about that. Its all been good. Thank you so much for your leadership, and for keeping this place fun and interesting. And on to more reading!

where can I find what other themes have been done in past years?

Re Avid Reader, can we bring up some questions from way back when it first started? We have so many new members now, think we might get some different responses

>95 labfs39: I think you did a mighty fine job, Lisa, well supported by those who ran various specialist threads. No complaints from me.

I think there have been more CR members this year which has meant more threads (or maybe it just feels that way). I feel like I've struggled to keep on top of all the threads more this year. What do people think about capping membership of the group at a certain level so we retain that connection between members rather than it getting bigger and bigger like the 75ers where those relationships can get lost? Maybe that's a selfish thought - just throwing it out there for consideration.

>96 cindydavid4: Thanks, Cindy. There are different ways to get to the Club Read threads. If you click on Groups on the top navigation bar, then Club Read 2022, you will see several pinned threads. This keeps them at the top and is done by me. At the top of the page I linked to some threads as well. Otherwise, you can always use the search box on this page. I find this page helpful when Talk seems overwhelming. Hope this helps.

>97 cindydavid4: As for finding topics in the past, it has been splotchy. I feel as though this year had more than usual, but that is subjective. If you want to browse past years, go to Groups, then use the search box to look up Club Read by year or just Club Read.

>98 AlisonY: I agree there have been a lot of individual threads; Ive pretty much joined threads of the folks here when I joined and havent ventured out; Im sure im missing great things of newer folk but there just isn't time. This is why I prefer to just use the reading thread, I get to meet plenty of people that way and get some good recommendations. I cant imagine a way to limit threads unless each thread lists their reading interests, but not sure how that would work

>98 AlisonY: Thanks, Alison. I was curious to see if our impressions that Club Read was busier than usual this year were supported by the data. Here's what I found.

2022
Members: 170
Watching: 32
Topics: 166
Messages: 21, 713

2021
Members: 140
Watching: 18
Topics: 124
Messages: 20,340

2020
Members: 92
Watching: 11
Topics: 123
Messages: 15, 682

2019
Members: 92
Watching: 17
Topics: 114
Messages: 12,895

Although the year is not quite over, the data so far shows that yes, Club Read has grown, but the number of messages has not increased that much over last year (although compared to three years ago, messages have increased by roughly 40%). One reason for the increase in members may be because we had a lot of people join CR this year who were authors of a single book and who never participated. They were just trying to get their name out, I guess.

Like you, I hope that Club Read can keep it's distinctive flavor and not just become 75 Books Lite, but I'm not sure how to do that without closing our doors, which I would prefer not to do.

I've very much enjoyed my time as a member of CR. I would not be in favor of limiting membership. The more the merrier, for all of me. I don't feel pressure to keep up with every single thread, though. That's just me and my one vote, if we're voting. Or my one member's personal perspective if we aren't. :)

I finally feel like I belong which has taken me a couple of years. I thinks you are doing a great job, Lisa.

Anyone want to help with a poetry topic - let me know.

You did a great job this year, Lisa, and I'm glad you're willing to be our valiant leader again next year. Like Jerry above, I'm not in favor of capping membership here.

I’d love to have a list of people’s name. I don’t remember names that aren’t in LT user name.

>106 dianeham: It is at the top of the Introductions thread (for the ones who had shared a name).

>107 AnnieMod: OMG! I had no idea.

Lisa, I think you've done a terrific job of overseeing this place. I've really enjoyed it even if my participation can be spotty, and I'm looking forward to whatever CR23 brings.

>97 cindydavid4: If you are talking about Questions for the Avid Reader specifically, best to address questions and ideas now to SassyLassy who will be doing 2023.

>102 labfs39: Interesting stats.... What number would suggest current active members who not only post their reading here but are also social/reciprocal visiting others' threads. Or are all the community theme reads doing that job?

And yes, I'm with Lisapeet, you have done a splendid job once again. We are lucky to have you.

>110 avaland: will do

>102 labfs39: Just to provide perspective:

75 Books
members: 416
watching: 21
topics: 748
messages: 110, 373

Club Read
Members: 170
Watching: 32
Topics: 166
Messages: 21, 713

>111 avaland: What number would suggest current active members who not only post their reading here but are also social/reciprocal visiting others' threads

Hmm, hard to say without a deep dive, but
~68 members (out of 170) created threads of their own and they average about 20-25 unique posters on each.
The community threads have slightly more (23-27). The tribute to rebeccanyc has 34 unique posters.

>95 labfs39: I'm a bit late, but just want to add my voice saying you did a fantastic job this year. I think I can say that Club Read is my favourite place on LT, thanks to you and to fellow members.
And thanks for agree to continue for 2023.

Not that anyone took me on the offer last year but I will make it again - if someone wants postcard for the holidays (a paper one), send me a message with your address and you will get one - regardless of where you are in the world (it may be a bit late but it will come) :)

Bored on this rainy, windy, and/or snowy afternoon? Come make a list of Nobel Prize winners that you have read on the Nobel Laureates in Literature Challenge.

>117 labfs39: Great idea, count me in!

And Club Read 2023 is now live! I try to release it a week early, because I know some of you like to get set up before the 1st. No rush, come on over when you are ready.

Merry Christmas and Happy last night of Hanukkah!

>119 labfs39: Thanks! I'm excited to start my new thread for the new year!

I had accidentally set this thread on ignore… in October! 🙁 Anyway I will now check out 2023.

And Lisa - you’ve done a terrific job with this group. It’s appreciated. Thanks and kudos.

>122 dchaikin: what he said. This has been so much fun and you made it that way!

...blushing... Thank you!

I agree with Dan, you have done a great job with the group, I add my thanks, too!

Ditto that. It's been a lot of fun this year!

I have a question for all you techies out there. I have over 850 children's books in a couple of collections. I am considering moving these into a separate account. Is there a way to export by collection, or do I need to export everything then upload just the collections I want into the new account? Has anyone done this recently? How clean is the resulting data?

>127 labfs39: You can pick which collections, tags, “books added after” subset and even specific search result to export during the export. However… You may be able to export but importing them on the other side is not going to be trivial: if they have ISBNs, they will be looked up in your sources so your data will get overwritten in fields that sources have information for; if they don’t have ISBNs, you will need to reformat the export to use the universal import special csv file format to get them cleanly (and only the fields that format allows will be imported.

In either case, it won’t be trivial to say the least. You will probably spend more time fixing them than it will take to just readd them, especially if you care about the details. And at least a few will need to be combined (and a few will land in wierd works and will need to be rescued). The lack of export/import loop in LT is one of the features that was never there and due to how the site works unlikely to show up soon.

If you are moving them so they do not mess up your recommendations, that can be fixed in a single account (you decide which collections are used so if you either isolate them and mark that one not to be used or uncheck the checkbox for all collections and build one which contains the books you want to be used for recommendations, you will be all set).

Thank you Lisa

>128 AnnieMod: Thanks, Annie. Sort of what I thought. I was hoping there would be an easy, peasy, clean way. I do have the collections set to not be included in recommendations etc. The problem is that you can't select more than one collection at a time to search. For instance, if I wanted to search for five star books that I have read, ideally I would search the my library, read but unowned, and previously owned collections at the same time. But I can't. So when I search all books, I get a lot of five star kids books, that I am not interested in. Ah well.

>129 baswood: :-)

>130 labfs39: if I wanted to search for five star books that I have read, ideally I would search the my library, read but unowned, and previously owned collections at the same time. But I can't.
I'd probably create a new collection in which I'd include all the books I ever read except the kids books. There's a lot you can do this way and it's fairly quick and easy to do if you use the Power edit function. Just a thought.

And I'd like to join the others in thanking you for this great year here at LT. I may have been much less present than I would have liked, but it was always a safe and fun haven to drop into. You did a great job.

>131 Trifolia: That's true. Project for a rainy day...

Thank you! A group is only as good as its members. I think we've had a good group this year.

>132 labfs39: Actually, if the Kids books are already in a single collection, that can be done very quickly. Add a tag/collection to all books you had read via Power Edit (one collection at a time if they are in multiple collections for example). Then open the Kids collection and remove the tag/collection from all books in that collection. All set. :)

>133 AnnieMod: - I just love that Power Edit function :-)

Click on Your Books--it's the lightning icon to the right.

>135 dianeham: thank you.

Did’t know there was a subsort too. Cool.

>137 dianeham:

You're welcome, did you find it?

>139 LolaWalser: yes, I found it and deleted my post then found your answer. You’re fast.