Importing books

If you're moving your collection from Goodreads, or already have a spreadsheet of your books, you don't have to add them one by one. Click Import next to Add book on the Library page to bulk-add books from a CSV file.

Importing a file

1. Click Import.
2. Choose where your file is coming from — Vaultisse or Goodreads (see below for each).
3. Click, or drag and drop, your CSV file onto the dropzone that appears.
4. Click Import.

Each row becomes a new book. A book you already have — matched by ISBN, or by title when there's no ISBN — is skipped automatically, so importing the same file twice is harmless.

Tip: The Import button stays disabled until you've picked both an origin and a file under the size limit shown beneath the dropzone — how large a file your server accepts depends on how it's configured.

Importing from Vaultisse

Use this to fill in your library from a spreadsheet, or to move books between two Vaultisse accounts.

Click Download template under the Vaultisse card to get a starting CSV with the right columns already in place — title, authors, ISBN, publisher, published year, pages, format, category, description, language, cover image URL, and reading status. Fill in one row per book and upload it back.

Importing from Goodreads

1. In Goodreads, go to My Books → Import and Export and export your library as a CSV.
2. Back in Vaultisse, open the Import dialog, choose Goodreads, and upload the file you just downloaded.

Goodreads' Exclusive Shelf (to-read, currently-reading, read) carries over as each book's reading status. Any other custom shelf you've made in Goodreads — for example a shelf named "office" to mean where a copy physically lives — becomes a location in Vaultisse too, with a physical copy (stock) created there automatically for that book.

After importing

Once the file finishes processing, the dialog closes and a confirmation shows how many books were added:

Imported books land on your Library page like any other book — open one to fill in anything the CSV didn't cover, such as a cover image or additional copies.