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Delicious Library 2 will track your media and your tools
First off, everything is Quicklook-capable and can be viewed in CoverFlow, which is awesome. You can thumb through your books just with a few keystrokes. You can share your library via .Mac and Bonjour, which means while using Wi-Fi at Barnes and Noble, you can actually get book recommendations from anyone else on the network with you.
Finally, Scott reveals a strange but interesting new feature. Apparently, in its pre-release incarnation, you can also track tools. That's right-- the screenshot above is not Photoshopped (not by us, at least). Scott even suggests there might be other possessions to track, but we'll have to wait for the official release to see just what the Delicious team have cooked up.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
spk said 5:47PM on 11-20-2007
Am I the only one for which this is grossly over-rated? Give me Yojimbo 2.0!
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Matt said 5:45PM on 11-20-2007
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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Ryan said 5:53PM on 11-20-2007
Explain to me again why I need this?
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jikespingleton said 5:55PM on 11-20-2007
UGGHHH I CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS!!!!
*CROSSES FINGERS AND HOPES*
iphoneversion iphoneversion iphoneversion iphoneversion!!!!
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look said 6:04PM on 11-20-2007
please kill this company...
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LD said 6:07PM on 11-20-2007
"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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look said 6:15PM on 11-20-2007
@ 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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Mike B. said 6:18PM on 11-20-2007
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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Ian said 6:42PM on 11-20-2007
Two words: Wh en?
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Andrew said 7:01PM on 11-20-2007
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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Ryan said 7:34PM on 11-20-2007
@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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Steven said 8:19PM on 11-20-2007
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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fd said 8:27PM on 11-20-2007
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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Steven said 9:12PM on 11-20-2007
@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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Dave said 8:52PM on 11-20-2007
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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Clark Goble said 12:40AM on 11-21-2007
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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Kristian Freeman said 11:56PM on 11-20-2007
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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Steven said 10:36AM on 11-21-2007
Another potential use is audiobooks. I've been a member of audible.com since 2000. So I have over 200 audiobooks and shorter audio programs (radio, interview, comedy, etc.) that I've acquired from there. It's going to be much nicer to browse what I own by looking at shelves, with cover art, in DL, than some text list on the audible website. In DL i'll sort them onto different shelves: books I've read (listened to) and likely won't read again, books I haven't yet read, and books I've read but plan to read again in the future. And it's one more example of a part of a library that can't be viewed by simply "walking across the room" and looking at the bookshelf or dvd rack, like so many people are claiming can be done with everything, hence no need for DL. hmph. couldn't be more mistaken.
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boatofcar said 3:54AM on 11-21-2007
@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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jigglymuffin said 5:11AM on 11-21-2007
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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