{"id":63,"date":"2005-07-11T15:36:30","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T22:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2005-07-21T22:33:49","modified_gmt":"2005-07-22T05:33:49","slug":"delicious-library-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/11\/delicious-library-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Delicious Library &#8212; WOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/delicious_library_logo.png\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Delicious Library logo\" \/> I have read about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious-monster.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Delicious Library<\/a> at quite a few places. But I never really thought much of it. So last night, I decided to kick the tires at this award-winning software&#8230;. Boy, was I blown away or what!!<\/p>\n<p>Once you use one of the three methods (Title, Author, ISBN) to search for your item (books, DVDs, CDs and games), the result is returned fairly quickly from Amazon.com&#8217;s database (needless to say, you need to be connected to the Internet to use this).<\/p>\n<p>But there are still things I was annoyed at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It only searches at Amazon&#8217;s database: I had some books that showed up only at Barns and Noble but not at Amazon. So I ended up having to hand code those. I also had to <i>borrow<\/i> pictures of some books from BN.com from time to time.<\/li>\n<li>It gets confused on locale: Sometimes it returns results from Amazon UK or Amazon France when the book was clearly available in Amazon&#8217;s US site<\/li>\n<li>Because it only looks at Amazon&#8217;s database, you can forget about foreign titles. All the books I got in Chinese (or even English titles from Singapore, Hong Kong or Australia) don&#8217;t show up even thought the ISBNs are valid.<\/li>\n<li>The damn interface doesn&#8217;t scroll with the mouse. Using the scroll bar becomes a hassle when you have 100 items to enter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But the software was amazing overall. I spent about an hour and a half entering everything I own (less games and CDs) into its database. Despite its shortcomings, this thing is great. I can now keep track of who&#8217;d borrowed my books and DVDs!!<\/p>\n<p>And damn it, I own 100+ books. I thought I&#8217;d shed most of them with all the moves I&#8217;ve had!<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> The comment Jeff made got me interested in finding out what else&#8217;s out there. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deepprose.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Booxter<\/a> from Deep Prose Software makes book entry <strong>WAY<\/strong> easier than Delicious Library. But it does require that I am on Amazon&#8217;s site as well. Too bad it doesn&#8217;t support DVD collections (or does it?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have read about Delicious Library at quite a few places. But I never really thought much of it. So last night, I decided to kick the tires at this award-winning software&#8230;. Boy, was I blown away or what!! Once you use one of the three methods (Title, Author, ISBN) to search for your item &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/11\/delicious-library-wow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Delicious Library &#8212; WOW!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-mac-osx","category-tips-tricks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-11","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}