How to Import Your Goodreads Library into Stackable

Goodreads doesn't have a "send this to another app" button — the whole thing has to leave as a CSV file first. That trips people up more than it should, so here's the actual process, no guessing required.

Step 1: Export your library from Goodreads

This has to happen on goodreads.com in a browser — the Goodreads mobile app doesn't have an export option, so pull this up on a computer or switch your phone's browser to "desktop site" if that's all you've got.

1. Log in to Goodreads, then go straight to the Import/Export page. (You can also get there manually: My Books → Import and Export in the left sidebar, near the bottom below all your shelves.)
2. Click Export Library.
3. Give it a moment. A few hundred books export almost instantly; a few thousand can take a couple of minutes, and Goodreads will email you when the file's ready.
4. Download the file. It'll be named something like goodreads_library_export.csv — don't rename it, you won't need to.

That one file has your whole shelf: titles, authors, ISBNs, ratings, what you've read and what's still sitting on the "want to read" pile, plus any reviews or private notes you've written.

Step 2: Bring it into Stackable

1. Go to Import & Export in your Stackable profile.
2. Select the CSV you just downloaded.
3. Click Import CSV and let it run.

Stackable works through the file row by row, matching each entry against your collection and pulling in ratings, reading status, and dates wherever Goodreads had them.

What to expect

• No duplicates. Already added a book manually? Stackable skips it instead of giving you two copies.
• Missing ISBNs get looked up for you. Goodreads exports don't always include one — when that happens, Stackable searches Google Books and Open Library by title and author to find a match.
• Covers show up a little after the import finishes. Right after your books land in Stackable, a background job kicks in to backfill missing covers and descriptions. If a cover looks blank right after import, give it a minute or two before assuming something's wrong.
• You'll get a summary at the end — how many books made it in, how many got skipped, and why, broken down by reason.

That's the whole thing. No spreadsheet gymnastics, no manual re-typing four hundred titles by hand.