Import/Export Book Reviews from Amazon/goodreads

Currently Librarything is using import manager from files exported from the websites, mostly Goodreads and then goes a bit accurate/unaccurate depending the listings that literarything already have. If the same books are listed in different languages for example the record will go to the less accurate side and create a second book outside the ones that could already exist in the DB.

I think if Goodreads dont have a trustfull API , then Amazon should have created a thousand of resources they could accurate Goodreads records even if not fully trustfull its something.

A request for the devs would be creating a two sides API if possible to have Goodreads import reviews once linked a token and a Amazon DB verification and ISBN libraries requester.

I think Librarything wont work as huge book libraries contender but instead as a aggregator and writers trustfull social network to discuss and empower books , if it does a Api to join both the worlds even large authors of goodreads, amazon will wanna launch their books as literarything first reviewer and then "BOOM" large scale goes wild

Um, if this is a suggestion for improving Amazon/GoodReads, posting it hear will be useless. Librarything is independent of them.

its not related to improvements of them

I come to LT for LT reviews, not GoodReads and Amazon reviews. If I wanted their reviews I would go there.

>1 FlavioMiguelPereira: I think you may be misunderstanding the purpose of LibraryThing: it is a book cataloging site, not a site for book launches. In fact, advertising is one of the few things expressly forbidden by the TOS.

>3 FlavioMiguelPereira: Okay, so you're asking for an improved way to import your own reviews from Amazon and GoodReads? Or an improved way to export them to those platforms?

Because unless they are your reviews, no other reviews will be moved across. A book must have an owner linked to it. Yes, works are aggregated to a group, but each review is linked to an individual book, individual account. And advertising will get quickly flagged, as stated by >5 amanda4242:.

import. Obviously i wont advertise

You cannot import other people's reviews into Library Thing. Reviews are part of a member's entry.

There is a work field for "Published Reviews" that allows for an excerpted quote and a link to the original review. I've populated a lot of those. But they're really published reviews, through print media and editorially-administered online venues. It's not for social-media-based reviews or user reviews (i.e. Goodreads or Amazon).

paradoxosalpha:

What possible good could come from giving detailed directions as to how to use a field to do a thing, then mentioning that the field is not intended to be used to do that thing?

>10 lorax:

It was a qualification correcting >8 MarthaJeanne: You cannot import other peoples reviews into LibraryThing.

In fact, one can, but one shouldn't for the sort of purposes that seem to be indicated in the OP.

I also tire of seeing excerpts from published reviews in the Review field from users' catalogs, when they could have been constructively added as published reviews.

>11 paradoxosalpha:

Actually, MarthaJeanne is right, the reviews cannot be imported into the Published Reviews field. You have to add the information manually.

And on reflection, the error I was responding to is "Reviews are part of a member's entry," which Published Reviews are not--or shouldn't be.