Download your data

The complete export

Settings › Privacy › Download your data requests a complete copy of your account: your shelves, reading, reviews, Circles, early copies, Goals and Wraps, and for an author the catalog, series and campaign decisions. It is free, always.

1. Press Request my data. The page says "We're building your export. We'll tell you when it's ready."
2. It usually takes a few minutes; you are told in your notifications. Nothing is described as ready until it is.
3. Under Export history, download it. A very large account gets its copy in several files, listed one by one.

Files are kept for 7 days and then deleted. The download link you get is valid for about 15 minutes; ask again any time and a new one is made. An export can be cancelled while it is building (anything already built is deleted).

Choose exactly what to export

A reader account can also export just the parts it wants, as spreadsheet-friendly files with a date range: pick sections under Account, Reading and Community, choose a date range, and tick Include CSV as well as JSON if you want a spreadsheet. The complete export above already contains everything in here; this is a convenience, not a gate. An author account's page says the selective export is not part of that account.

What the export contains

Everything that is yours, in four groups: Account (profile and settings, including your Kindle address if you saved one), Reading (shelves, progress, reviews, goals, insights, wraps, highlights and notes, and how books felt, the moods and pace you marked), Community (posts, comments, follows, Circles) and, for an author, Author & publishing (catalog, series, campaigns and their decisions). Each download of the export is a protected file: the link is signed, short-lived and logged, like an early copy's.

Your list is yours

An author can take two things away, and here is exactly what is in each.

• Your subscribers' addresses. Studio › Readers › Mailing list, Export CSV, on every plan. One row for each reader who ticked the box to get your letters by e-mail, with four columns: the address, the day they subscribed, the export's id (a watermark on every row) and the exact words they agreed to. A reader who unsubscribed is not in it. You can export once an hour for each pen name, so export again right before you write to them.
• Your work. The complete export above carries your author profile, your pen names, your catalog (each book with its content level and warnings), your series, your posts, including your Journal entries and letters as you wrote them, your campaigns, and the decisions you made on applications: who applied, when, and what you decided.

What stays with its reader. A review belongs to the reader who wrote it: it leaves in their export, not yours, and it is gone if they delete it. An applicant's note to you is theirs too, and it is in their export, not yours. Followers are a number, not a list: following never gives an author an address, so only the readers who ticked the letters box are in the CSV.