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Add ability to create books from import failures #1820
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This would be straightforward to add and really helpful when items don't import |
#1973 is a first step for adding this |
Another feature that can be useful for failed imports would be to resolve them via adding book IDs. The ones in the URL: |
I think the ability to resolve all types of failed imports would be useful too - I have just done a GoodReads import and about 15% failed (which I'd expect, as it's very unlikely to be a perfect match for everything, even with ISBNs). They fall into 3 categories as far as I can tell:
There are also some partial matches which are so different that I can't work out how Bookwyrm has made the match (e.g. Patrick Troughton: The Biography gets matched to The Fellowship of the Ring). |
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
There's not a clear path forward if an import fails, and I don't think there's a way to recover reading dates if we can't find a match
Describe the solution you'd like
It'd be nice to have a way to create a book using the information from the import (title, author, ISBN, etc) and then once added, adds it to the correct shelf with the reading dates and such. I'm imagining a "create book" button on the failure notice?
Describe alternatives you've considered
I think currently you can manually add the book and then retry the failed books to match them to the newly-added book and recover your reading data - this is a reasonable flow, I think, and would be improved by being able to add a book from the import data.
Additional context
If this already exists my apologies! I haven't done an import in a while, but my existing imports don't seem to have anything like it, and I didn't see any issues about it in a quick search.
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