I would also suggest taking a look at Booxter 2.0 (http://www.deepprose.com) which will keep track of your books, music, movies, and comic books. It's been around for many years, has just been updated with a lot of powerful features, and is available right now. It can also import from Delicious Library, so if you are a current Delicious Library user, you can download Booxter and try it out.

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Am I the only one for which this is grossly over-rated? Give me Yojimbo 2.0!

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Explain to me again why I need this?

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UGGHHH I CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS!!!!

*CROSSES FINGERS AND HOPES*
iphoneversion iphoneversion iphoneversion iphoneversion!!!!

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please kill this company...

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"we'll have to wait for the official release to see just what the Delicious team have cooked up."

More crap I am guessing. Gorgeous crap, but crap all the same. It's a pretty app that misses out on most of the utlity for which is was ostensibly built. I see nothing in DL2 that changes my mind on that, simply more eye candy.

The Pedias are where it's at.

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@ LD = so true!!!

also, if they just added play/appletv functionality they could actually give iTunes a run for there money...but without that it's a pretty ussless shell.

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Wow. Who dropped the IQs in the comments section by fifty points?

If you don't get Delicious Library--a beautiful, intuitive, easy-to-use product that doesn't necessarily fill an urgent need--do you really get the Mac? At all? I don't think so.

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Two words: Wh en?

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I'd love to see DL2 allow using DL as a front-end for playing media. I can't count the people that saw DL, said "WHOA that's really cool", and then said "play that movie". I then replied, well you can't play from here, I have the file over here and received numerous "Oh...."'s. It totally kills the program that you can't fire up a file, even it it just opened in Quicktime. Either add a file launch feature or make a plugin architecture so someone else can make it happen. Otherwise I'll probably pass on DL2...

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@Mike B.
I don't get it.

*All my DVD's are on a rack next to my tv, I don't need to go to my laptop to see what I have - I can see it already. I guess if you have hundreds of DVD's this may be useful, but I don't so I don't see it.
*All my music (which I do own quite a bit legally) is already in iTunes, CD's an vinyl are in storage.
*Books apply the same rule as my DVD's
*Tools apply the same rule as my DVD's, except they are in my nicely organized toolbox.

I can see it is a beautiful, intuitive, and easy-to-use product - I'm a programer, I just don't see why anyone *really* needs it.

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Wait a minute. The folks at Delicious Monster stubbornly refuse to let us catalog our computer software, or create media types/categories of our own, but they'll create functionality to let us catalog our *tools*?!? You've gotta be kidding me. If they provide for that, but not for the ability for a user to create a category of their own, for things like software or board games, well then they're just being random, and obstinate.

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Flash without true function.

Still very bloated with n-plicates of image files. 500MB library anyone? Try to export or print something. Try some settings to have it save less stuff? Try some foreign stuff? And still no option to catalog / track your own media or stuff.

Tssss

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I'm with Ryan (#11), I just don't see the point. It seems like -more- work to have to catalogue all this stuff; and for what purpose? I don't need to know what books I have, chances are I'll remember what I have because I've read them; and if not, they're about three seconds away on my bookshelf.

And to Mike B., to imply that because someone has no need for a tool/utility/program that duplicates work means they "don't get it" seems to be a bit stereo-typical. I use a Mac because I "get it." The Mac is a pleasure to use for the work I need to complete; and I can say this without "getting" DL2 (which would force me to duplicate work).

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@Ryan:

I don't have a hundred DVDs, but I sure like having DL to catalog them. I don't store them in a rack in my living room. That takes up too much space and it's one more pile of things to dust every week. I store them in cd wallets. And I'm starting to rip them to a hard drive and get rid of the dvds entirely. I rip netflix dvds so that i can watch them later. those can't be displayed on the dvd rack, can they? So, DL is perfect. I can print out my library of dvds and put the printouts in a thin 3-ring binder. Takes up way less space in my living room, and it's easier for friends to browse my collection. Which includes downloaded itunes movies also. So, they wouldn't have been able to see those on a dvd rack, now would they?

Same with my music collection. I used to own 1500 CDs. They were in a 6ft tall rack in my living room. Now I own zero CDs. With DL i can make a nice printout of my collection and let friends (or me, of course) browse it like a magazine while sitting on the couch. Can't do that with itunes.

Books. I used to have a few hundred books. Now I have 50 or so. I pared down to 2 small bookcases from 3 huge bookcases. Scanned in 150-200 books with a fujitsu scansnap (highly recommended). They now exist as PDFs. Instead of them taking up dozens of feet of shelf space, they now take up an inch of shelf space because I printed out the catalog of what i have on PDF, and those sheets went in the 3-ring binder. I can read those PDFs on my laptop or my sony ereader device. Of course, you can do the same thing with books you hang onto, that live in boxes in the closet. Perfect if you have limited space on your shelves or in your living room for bookcases.

Video games. I really don't want my video game collection on display in my living room next to my tv. I'm not 15 years old. 30-something women I date don't need to see my nintendo games on display, that's for sure. They're in cd wallets, and cartridges are in an easy to get to box in the closet. With DL i can catalog them and show what's available on printouts, see above.

Those are (some of the many) the reasons to use Delicious Library. Any other questions?

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Can someone explain to me what Delicious Library is exactly? I've heard so much about it and it looks like a gorgeous app, but I have no clue what it is. Explain?

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If they make it so I can track not only books and DVDs "borrowed" but also tools, kitchen implements, and other such things then this will be the must have software for many people.

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@15,

So DL is useful if you pirate media? I'm sure the creators are touting that as a big selling point.

To the haters, there are tons of apps out there that serve no purpose. This is just another one on the list.

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What's with all the hatin'? There's buckets of software that someone might find useful and others will not. It's a preference and as someone who likes lists and catalogues (and things that are pretty), Delicious Library is perfect for me. I love it!

I have over 200 DVDs and same with CDs. And now with DL2 and its web intergration, I can have the same program for myself and upload my catalogue online for my friends to see, I don't have to constantly list what I have and what I don't have.

I realize that there's a bunch of online versions that do the same thing, but nothing as slick as Delicious Library and honestly, I like to have these things offline as well so if one app does all, I'm happy.

I do wish it would support more international databases and the webcam barcode reading would be more efficient, but other than that, I don't really need it to do any more than it already does. And from what I hear they have really made an effort to improve the barcode reading, so that's one down.

There's something to be said about cluttering apps with too many features. I'm sure the real pro or enthusiast catalogue peeps would love to have all the features you can throw in there, but it doesn't always make for an efficient and working app (MS Office, anyone?!).

Also, I find it extremely useful to have especially when I can upload my lists to my iPod which I take with me everywhere. So when I go buy new DVDs I have a list of what I already have because with a big catalogue, sometimes one forgets what's already been purchased and what haven't. I know it's hard for someone to understand this, but nonetheless, that's the way it is.

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I own a lot of DVDs and I have a number of family and friends who borrow on a regular basis. Delicious Library is a perfect and attractive way for me to catalog my collection and keep track of who's borrowed what. It came in quite handy the other day when I was away from home and needed to tell my mother who lives in another state what HD-DVDs I had that I could bring home for the holidays. I was already on my computer and easily told her what I had and then reminded her she needed to return two movies. So, it's not useless to SOME people.

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