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James Rowe
Goodreads reviews imported to posts
2024-04-22 19:31:11
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Goodreads content consolidation

I was using Goodreads for a number of years to track my literature consumption. But I didn't like that the review box was so small and I had to login every time to search books I've read. Todo: add some simple search feature using tags on jekyll.

They citation needed say the brain can't tell the difference between audio books and physical books. A majority of the imported reviews were consumed via audioCD during my commute to/from work.

Export to _posts process

Had fun tracking my books at goodreads.com but I wanted to consolidate my data to the one true overlord MSFT and use it as content on jsr6720.github.io.

I had just about 245 reviews I wanted to convert to posts so of course I decided to trial ChatGPT 3.5 augmented programming. The bulk of which I documented here goodreads-csv-to-markdown

Goodreads account data

Copied from the account settings/profile page. I joined in May 2016. Prior to this I was tracking books on some now lost google sheet stored on an old google drive account.

232 ratings (3.88 avg) with 219 reviews. I guess maybe I don't like what I pick.

FAVORITE GENRES: Biography, Business, Classics, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, and Psychology

These genres were converted to tags as part of this migration.

Screenshot of stats

good read stats from account overview page


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