Import from Goodreads
Bring your Goodreads history into Kevra: books read with their dates, your to-read list, ratings and reviews.
If you've spent years logging your reading on Goodreads, you don't have to start from scratch: Kevra can bring your whole history over.
What comes over
- Your read books, with the date you finished them.
- The ones you're currently reading.
- Your Want to Read shelf, which goes to your Want to read list.
- Your ratings (stars) and reviews, which become your reviews in Kevra.
No book files come over: Goodreads doesn't have them. It's your reading history.
Step 1: download your Goodreads library
Goodreads doesn't let other apps read your account, but it does let you download your library as a file:
- Open Goodreads on a computer and go to "My Books".
- In the left column: "Tools" → "Import and Export" → "Export Library".
- When the link is ready, download the file and get it onto your phone (by email, through your cloud…).
Step 2: upload it to Kevra
- Go to Settings → Account → Migrate from another app → Goodreads.
- Tap Choose the file and select the one you downloaded.
- Kevra sorts it out in the background. You can leave this screen: it carries on by itself.
When it's done you'll see how many books came in as read, started, in "Want to read" and with a rating or review.
How it's done
- The dates are Goodreads' dates, not today's. Your friends won't suddenly see five hundred books "finished today".
- What you already have in Kevra isn't touched: a book already read here isn't duplicated, and your Kevra reviews aren't overwritten. Importing twice changes nothing.
- If Kevra doesn't recognize a book, it creates it anyway with the title and author from Goodreads, so you don't lose anything.
- The file you upload is deleted as soon as the import finishes.
Common questions
- It says the file doesn't look like Goodreads. Make sure you upload the "Export Library" file as is, without opening and saving it first in Excel or another program.
- Does it bring over the percentage of what I'm reading? No: Goodreads doesn't store it. They come in as started.
Coming from another reading app? See Migrate from another app.
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