I am currently migrating my #BookWyrm account for the first time (to @juergen_hubert@tomes.tchncs.de , and it's definitely not the smooth process I am used to from my two Mastodon migrations.
A lot of books required a second import attempt to migrate successfully. And many more failed to import at all - primarily, but not exclusively those without an #ISBN . While these books mostly do have an #OpenLibrary ID (I know because I added entries for them to OpenLibrary in the first place), this doesn't seem to have helped.
I don't know what can be done to improve this process, but as it stands I have to import about 400 entries manually - about a fourth of my total. Admittedly, I probably have far more old books without ISBNs than most users, but still - that's a lot.
So be careful when picking your BookWyrm instance, …
I am currently migrating my #BookWyrm account for the first time (to @juergen_hubert@tomes.tchncs.de , and it's definitely not the smooth process I am used to from my two Mastodon migrations.
A lot of books required a second import attempt to migrate successfully. And many more failed to import at all - primarily, but not exclusively those without an #ISBN . While these books mostly do have an #OpenLibrary ID (I know because I added entries for them to OpenLibrary in the first place), this doesn't seem to have helped.
I don't know what can be done to improve this process, but as it stands I have to import about 400 entries manually - about a fourth of my total. Admittedly, I probably have far more old books without ISBNs than most users, but still - that's a lot.
So be careful when picking your BookWyrm instance, because migrating is a pain.
