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Delicious Library 2 beta on the streets

In a Memorial Day treat for users, Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster announced via a tweet earlier this evening that a beta of Delicious Library 2 is now available for download and purchase. We've been waiting eagerly for DL2 for quite a while now, along with everyone else.

Interestingly, on first launch of the new beta you're presented with the dialog on the right. Apparently DL2's scrolling and display performance relies on fixes delivered in Mac OS X 10.5.3 -- that is, fixes you can't get yet in an OS build that hasn't shipped. Patience is a virtue, I suppose.

Update: Wil Shipley replies below. The beta test is of the integrated store functionality in DL2; the software itself is not launched yet, so be cautious.

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Arturo

All these years for this? o_O I'm moving to the pedias…

May 26 2008 at 5:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
alf

Anyone who can mirror the beta onto rapidshare? For some reason my download goes to 0kb/s after every single percent of the download that it finishes (tried downthemall, firefox's builtin downloader and safari, all suffer from the same prob).

May 25 2008 at 12:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Matt

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 fetches data from Amazon, but also from many other sites worldwide.

It's been around for many years, is updated regularly, and is available right now. It can also import from DL, so if you are a current DL user, you can download Booxter and try it out.

May 24 2008 at 7:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Scott

The alternative would be the Pedia products--DVDpedia, Bookpedia, etc. from bruji (bruji.com). No cheesy wood interface, not as many obtrusive tie-ins to Amazon, tons more features that can be customized, and a beautiful iTunes-like interface. Most importantly, responsive developers who have put out dozens of new releases in the past few years, filled not only with tweaks and fixes, but with some new functionality every time. And they TALK to their customers practically daily through the Bruji support forums.

May 24 2008 at 1:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Randy

This adds iWeb integration which is nice except the ' bug. You know, every time it encounters an apostrophe it injects '

Who was the rocket scientist that decided on 16:10 monitors with docks no less, we need the info panel on bottom? It was fine on the side, now it's just cramped and useless.

I refuse to believe it has taken over 2yrs. to turn DL from a great cataloging software into a store front for Amazon. That's all this software is now, a store front. Guess it's time to find an alternative before you cripple DL 1.6 to try force me to upgrade.

May 24 2008 at 1:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
look

3 years in the making???

it's more like 1.7v!

wil, get off Twitter and start working you lazy @#$%

***without Mike Matas DL is dead***

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May 24 2008 at 1:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mibu

I like how the size of a cover now accurately represents the book's dimensions. Just klick on a book and wait to see it resize. I've done that with all my books already. In DL1 there was only a handful of formats, but now it's easier to find the book you are searching for by just looking at the relative sizes.

May 24 2008 at 12:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kj

Severely overrated.

May 24 2008 at 10:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Olivier

Cataloguing your shit sucks ! You really have to have major time to waste !

Nothing really new to this version........... and it's dog slow and it takes like 100mb of real memory with the *sample* lib

May 24 2008 at 9:33 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Daveoc64

Not impressed.

Just tried it out and the new interface is awful.

Certainly not paying $15 to upgrade, especially seeing as I got it TWO days before the free upgrade cut-off point.

May 24 2008 at 9:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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