I do not, thank you very much. ^o^ Actually had to turn on the Chrome page translate to navigate semi-well on yes24.
Noted on the product requests! I’ll keep them in the back of my mind~
Ah, and this probably isn’t a bug per se, but I did want to mention it. If I’m on a JP book page and try to switch to Korean, it just stays on the JP book page and doesn’t flip the flag to Korean. I feel like there should be some sort of interaction with Natively at that point; either switching to Korean kicks you to the Korean book search page, or a little pop-up or something tells you you need to go to XX page to switch to Korean mode. I’m not sure if I like that second suggestion, honestly; it makes more sense to me to do the first. That’s what my brain expects, anyway.
Perhaps in the future, once book editions are out, different language editions could be linked, and swapping languages on that book’s page redirects you to the other language’s version. If there is no other version, you’re kicked to that language’s book search page your dashboard in the new language.
Is there a bulk data import option somewhere? I currently keep my list of read books on booklog.jp, which has an “export as CSV”, so if there’s an import option here I could potentially script up a format conversion and have my books I’ve read on Natively too. But for 275 books I don’t really want to add them all by hand
There was some discussion about that, but I don’t think it materialized yet?
Edit: can’t find it, but I remember talking about something similar, and @brandon mentioned using csv on the back-end?
Edit2: ah, found it! (well, that’s the reply to my question about adding new books through csv files, but that would be also adding books to one’s library in that specific use case)
There isn’t yet no. I have built an import process for goodreads & bookmeter accounts, but to add all the new books is quite labor intensive.
I could certainly leverage my goodreads import and add all the books that exist on Natively already for you if you’d like - all i’d need is a csv with:
ISBN
ISBN13
Exclusive Shelf [‘currently-reading’, ‘to-read’, ‘read’] (this is the status field)
I will say too that by the end of the year this may all be easier… but no promises. As a part of Korean, I’m moving more towards auto import & book creation, similar to movies. The major complication with that is handling editions well, which hopefully we can do by the end of the year. We’ll see
Yeah, I need to add a button which quick links you to the data manager.
Basically you need to pop your ‘additional options’ and either edit your date started / date finished / current page there or, if you’d like to add / edit past reading sessions, toggle ‘basic info’ tab to ‘data manager’.
@brandon : you can find the csv in the format you asked for here. Or if you prefer a csv where line 1 is a header line defining the field names and the actual data starts on line 2 I made that too. Hopefully I didn’t mess up the formatting Thanks!
(This was a fun opportunity to look at ways of mangling csv files on the command line – I ended up using Miller which lets you do “like awk, but on csv”., among other things.)
After setting the series to watching, I couldn’t update on the dashboard (clicking + did nothing), so I had to use the pop-up to set episode 1 as watched. After watching episode 2, the + did work, but the activity didn’t appear on the series page.
When viewing a user’s profile, it would be nice if we could use the flags next to the username to view their books/videos in different languages without your own language setting being changed.
Strange – works for me on Firefox on Linux and Android. Is it just that file or the whole host it dislikes?
Edit: ah, managed to trigger it. It’s just complaining because I used the http:// URL by mistake instead of the https:// one. I’ve edited the original post now to use https.
A small note - I fixed the past polling data from that bug a few weeks ago… as you can see the the original problem poll has been fixed. I also checked more recent polls and they seem to be unaffected… although from the code I was supplied from discourse, it seemed pretty impossible that it would remove data… it could only add extra data (possibly).
Also, this is different from what I normally do. Normally I go to the book page itself and just set it to “finished”, which I believe doesn’t create the “read pages …” activity. I would certainly prefer not to generate that activity since I don’t track pages. Does that mean I just have to stick with the other approach?
