If you’ve kept your reading on Goodreads, you don’t have to start over. Goodreads can export your library as a single file, and Kiveo can read it.
Export from Goodreads
- On the Goodreads website, go to goodreads.com/review/import.
- Choose Export Library.
- Download the CSV file, and keep it somewhere your iPhone or iPad can reach, such as Files.
Import it into Kiveo
- On Home, tap the user icon at the top right to open Settings.
- Under Import & Export, tap Import from Goodreads.
- Tap Select CSV File and choose the file you downloaded.
- Wait while Kiveo looks up each book. A big library can take a moment.
- On Review Import, tap the arrow under any book to change its Reading Status or choose a shelf under Add to Shelf.
- Tap the import button at the bottom. It counts the books that are coming in.
Books search can’t find
Some books won’t match anything in our catalog. They’re counted as Skipped, with their switch turned off. Turn a book’s switch on to bring it in as a custom book, made from the title, author, publisher and page count in your file. To bring them all in at once, tap Add all 3 as custom (with your own number). Rows in your file that have no ISBN still show in Review Import, so you can see every book that was in it.
Good to know
Each book keeps its Goodreads shelf as a status: read becomes Finished, currently-reading becomes Currently Reading, and to-read becomes Want to Read. The date you added it comes over, and so does the date you read it for finished books. Books you’re reading get the day you import as their start date; see how to correct a book’s dates if you’d like the real one. Ratings and reviews stay on Goodreads.
Tip
A book with no shelf chosen goes to your Leaf Pile. The Add to Shelf menu also lists the book’s own Goodreads shelves: pick one and Kiveo makes that shelf for you. Books already in your library are marked Already in library and left as they are.