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Tell users which GoodReads imports fail
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### Describe the problem that you'd like solved
I just signed up for this and imported my GoodReads csv export. the csv has 90ish rows and I was only able to import 60ish rows. Open Library did not tell me it wasn't able to fully import my data. I get that Open Library doesn't have as much data as GoodReads, but I wish it would show me the data it couldn't import so I could add it manually to Open Library's data store.
### Proposal & Constraints
I propose that Open Library tells users when some of their data fails to import. Maybe a red banner or something- *30 books failed to import*. I feel like this would be relatively easy to do and it would warn users that something failed.
Even better than that would be a list of what failed to import (probably not too much harder to implement). This would let people manually import books with the list.
Even better than that would be a displayed table of that list (the rows in the CSV that didn't make it) with an export option and auto-generated links to fill in the "import book" form (probably a lot harder to do) so users could easily import these books
### Additional context
I originally brought this up at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25408988 .
### Stakeholders
@tabshaikh @mekarpeles (asked to tag these good folks from the HN comment)
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