MyNextList (former FictFact) Users discussion

Brian, I still appreciated your services & thank you for the work you & your team did to provide us with the exceptional format to keep track of authors & books!! I also thank you for the opportunity to upload the information I had entered into it because you gave us a warning.

Brian Kirsten wrote: "Esther wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Esther wrote: "Brian Kirsten wrote: "Esther wrote: "I believe it did get info from Amazon, but Amazon is not the only bookstore out there. I'm a web dev, and I know that..."


I do appreciate what you are saying Brian, I unfortunately couldn't use your amazon link as I'm in Australia and they don't let me use amazon.com.

I too am thankful that you and the others put all that work into the site for so many years, and I'm sorry that you're having to deal with all our disappointment, as well as your own :(

I found this website, for those of us that are missing the new release calendar. Not necessarily regarding book series, but a list of upcoming books that you might be interested in. I will be watching it for a while to see if any of my favourite authors show up.

https://readingbookslikeaboss.com/boo...

Thanks Yvonne. Nice site.

fictiondb.com looks like it might be good too. You're able to do book lists and get email alerts for new books.

Thanks for that suggestion Lynne ... it looks like it could be useful. But it doesn't seem like it's particularly easy to upload data. So it would be re-creating from scratch. Also, I'm not seeing where it gives you a list of your series. But I'll play some more.

What I will miss the most, I think, is the ability to track .5 books in my series. Since most are e-books, they don't always show up in new book lists. Following each author separately would just fill up my email because I follow so many series.
FictFact, I loved you!

Because there seem to be so many of us series-holics, I was wonder if any of you know of a good place (preferably on FB or GR) where people talk about and recommend series? If there isn't, I was wondering if there might be enough interest to start a FB group specifically for those of us who love series.

One of my groups here on GR is all about series. SOS: Serious Overload of Series

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

I would be interested in a FB group that would help track series and the books in them. I can help do the leg work of tracking down books and making lists for the group.

That’s a big undertaking Kristin- could be fun!!

Kristine wrote: "I would be interested in a FB group that would help track series and the books in them. I can help do the leg work of tracking down books and making lists for the group."

I'm going to be on vacation for two weeks. When I get back, let's see what we can put together!

Sounds good!👌

The only problem with the FB idea is that there are people who don't use social media, like me! :)

I finally just finished importing my books into goodreads. That was painful. 1300 books later....

The import functionality was less than thorough...

But I'm missing my book release calendar view :(

I am really really really missing my book release calendar too.

What I valued most about fictfact was this feature. I could select just my book series and could opt to see all if I wanted too. Every other new release notification seems just like an ad or marketing ploy to sell more books vs basic information that I want to see. If it’s my series, then I’m going to buy it in my own good time...

Tanya wrote: "What I will miss the most is this kept track of my newer authors on my to read list. I was sorry we did not get to keep that information. I had a bunch that I can’t remember."

Yes I am sad to lose that information also.

It is too bad Fictfact couldn't be duplicated on a version a book version of thetvdb.com. Then you could build something like TVtime for books.

It is amazing how much I have come to realize I relied on Fictfact. I have finished a few books and went to figure out what to read next. I just have no clue and haven't read anything in weeks.

Lots of ideas and options have been suggested in other messages- check them out!!
Me; I created a spreadsheet of all my books & use highlight colors to indicate a book is needed, a different color to show I’ve ordered, another color for a book I’ve read- & didn’t like- lol - & books I read & didn’t keep!!

I'm very grateful that i was able to download the list of books I got from FictFact but i really wish i could have also gotten my next book file.

Hey guys, I have decided to work on a FictFact version 2.0 but it will take some time since I have barely begun looking into options on how to host and set it up.

I'll focus on the Next books list and Book Release Calendar to begin with and we'll go from there.

Are there any other features you think are absolutely essential? Any suggestions welcome!

Thenia wrote: "Hey guys, I have decided to work on a FictFact version 2.0 but it will take some time since I have barely begun looking into options on how to host and set it up.

I'll focus on the Next books list..."

Go, Thenia! Keep us updated @ SOS 😁

Thenia wrote: "Hey guys, I have decided to work on a FictFact version 2.0 but it will take some time since I have barely begun looking into options on how to host and set it up.

I'll focus on the Next books list..."

Let me know if you need any help. Not good at coding, but can do a lot with WordPress.

As for features, Next Books and the Book Release calendar, of course. I used the series lists extensively and loved being able to sort in the list by the percentage read. That's the biggest problem I'm having right now.

Some way of keeping track where a given book is located, whether in a library or on a shelf at home, would be nice, but I'd have to be able to sort by library. Although, I'm in kind of an unusual position in that I have access to lots of different libraries.

Drag-and-Drop was such a help to me. I'm a bit obsessive about reading books in order of when I acquired them and that feature helped immensely!

If you need any help scouting out older books/series, let me know.

Would anyone be interested in using a google doc spreadsheet to add in their series into. I would be willing to set it up.

Maybe. :) How would it work exactly?

I agree with Anne, I would like to be able to note where I personally have the book too

Thenia wrote: "Hey guys, I have decided to work on a FictFact version 2.0 but it will take some time since I have barely begun looking into options on how to host and set it up.

I'll focus on the Next books list..."

Thank you so much for undertaking this! Please keep me in the loop, and if you ever need an admin. asst's, skills, please call on me.

Terri it would be just like a spreadsheet that everyone can put the files they downloaded from the site in and people could save it on their computers and arrange it how they would like.
I am at work and the computers are old and only have excel viewer on them. In the next day or so I will get mine organized and post a link.

My books are on an excel spreadsheet- lists author, any AKAs, titles, series, order, type of book (ebook, paper, hardback) & location- ie: kindle, Barnes & Noble, my computer, my book shelves), etc- with color to indicate any outstanding, ordered, still coming-& never buy from that author again! Lol

I was looking at the file I downloaded from FictFact and all it has are the books I have read. Am I missing something? I was thinking it had all the series I was following.

Kristine wrote: "Terri it would be just like a spreadsheet that everyone can put the files they downloaded from the site in and people could save it on their computers and arrange it how they would like.
I am at w..."

I'll have a look. I'm slowly teaching myself to use a spreadsheet but just have basic "next book" info on it. It'll be interesting to see how others have set theirs up.

Kristine wrote: "I was looking at the file I downloaded from FictFact and all it has are the books I have read. Am I missing something? I was thinking it had all the series I was following."

The only ones in the file were ones that you'd marked as "read" or "to be read", not all the ones you were following. I'm slowly rebuilding my list using a spreadsheet but it's slow going.

Ok. I don’t even remember which ones I had followed I had so many.

& don’t forget Fantasticfiction.com - they keep track of books that are coming out- there’s a IS version & one for UK

Thank you for the support everyone!

I will most likely take you up on your offers of help once I have a handle on what's needed to get the site up and running.

Stay tuned!

I though about creating a fictfact 2.0 myself, but didn't want to take on the whole thing. I am available to help you if you want. I can code in a few languages, and very good at import/export routines, and very good at designing databases.

One thing I have not been able to find is a source for series to get a feed from.

I can help do the leg work of getting information for the book series.

• Tom • wrote: "I though about creating a fictfact 2.0 myself, but didn't want to take on the whole thing. I am available to help you if you want. I can code in a few languages, and very good at import/export rout..."

I believe fict fact was doing most additions manually, but would pull book descriptions and such through amazon.

As a first step, I have created a shared spreadsheet where you can add the data from the exports you downloaded from FictFact.

You can find it here.

Please copy your data below the last row and don't worry too much about duplicate entries, since this will be used to test the new process initially and afterwards will be cleaned to serve as the base for the new database.

Thank you all in advance!

I went through my fictfact data and pulled out the series names. I then created a list/spreadsheet of those names and then I went to goodreads.com to lookup the series. I then bookmarked each series link in goodreads. so I can click on a link and check for new books. series that are finished, I move to the bottom.
example:
The Hunger Games https://www.goodreads.com/series/7375...

Thenia wrote: "As a first step, I have created a shared spreadsheet where you can add the data from the exports you downloaded from FictFact.

You can find it here.

Please copy your data below the last row and d..."

I have over 2000 books on the FictFact download. Should I add them all?

Thenia wrote: "As a first step, I have created a shared spreadsheet where you can add the data from the exports you downloaded from FictFact.

You can find it here.

Please copy your data below the last row and d..."

Hi Thenia!

I didn’t have any info in FicFact that recently closed, but I’d like to join FicFact 2.0that you all are working on and begin to track my series.’ Is it possible? What do you advise?

Shane wrote: "I went through my fictfact data and pulled out the series names. I then created a list/spreadsheet of those names and then I went to goodreads.com to lookup the series. I then bookmarked each serie..."

How did you look up the series and bookmark them?

I used the Next Book List page of FictFact the most, in fact when I start typing Fict in my address bar that's what autocomplete takes me to.

I've been able to somewhat recreate that in Excel using Named Ranges, Data Validation and Indirect. It's not exactly the same thing and I have to manually add new books, new series I start, etc. But at least now I once again have a list I can scroll through when I finish one book and am trying to decide what I want to read next.

Teri Pre wrote: "I have over 2000 books on the FictFact download. Should I add them all?"

Yes please!

Andrea (Catsos Person) is a Compulsive eBook Hoarder wrote: "Hi Thenia!

I didn’t have any info in FicFact that recently closed, but I’d like to join FicFact 2.0that you all are working on and begin to track my series.’ Is it possible? What do you advise?."

You are more than welcome to join us when we get the new site up and running!

While it's under construction, you can help by adding books that you've read that belong in a series in our database. I have marked the necessary fields in green. If you are adding books one by one, I would suggest filtering by the series and author's name first so that you can check if the book has already been added.

Thenia wrote: "Teri Pre wrote: "I have over 2000 books on the FictFact download. Should I add them all?"

Yes please!

I added them, but it seems as if my data is off by a column. I'm just learning my way around spreadsheets (steep learning curve!!) so I'm not sure how to move the series name from the Date Added column to the proper one without messing up the rest of the books.

Ok Thenia! I’ll enter my series’ info.

I have warn you my fiction reading is narrow. I read M/M Romance and M/F Historical romance, but the overwhelming series’ that I’m I’m involved with fall into M/M Romance genre.

Teri Pre wrote: "I added them, but it seems as if my data is off by a column. I'm just learning my way around spreadsheets (steep learning curve!!) so I'm not sure how to move the series name from the Date Added column to the proper one without messing up the rest of the books."

That's my bad - I used an amended version of the export. I'll fix it now to fit the original so that people won't need to tweak their exports to fit.

Sorry about that and thanks for adding your books!

Thenia wrote: "Hey guys, I have decided to work on a FictFact version 2.0 but it will take some time since I have barely begun looking into options on how to host and set it up.

I'll focus on the Next books list..."

I'm a web developer (mostly PHP/SQL, but also javascript, including jquery and angular, and some python.) I'd love to help get this back up and running.