Friday, May 23
Delicious Library 1.6.6
Wow.
Always dreamed of cataloging your DVDs, Books, or CDs? Maybe even started once or twice, but realized it would take you until you're in the nursing home and that would be only if you stopped collecting now?
Well, here's the answer.
Delicious Library looks great runs great and is a cinch to use. You'd never guess how they make this easy, and when I tell you, you won't believe that it works, not well, anyway.
Here's what you do: You get a DVD, you fire up the program, then you select the iSight camera option. You are then presenting with a laser scanner window. You hold the DVD's UPC up to the scanner, and, almost every time, it scans.
The program then connects to Amazon.com and PRESTO! You have added the title to your library, not only (in 90%) of the cases with the exact edition (and cover image) but also with all the other online content for that entry on Amazon.
We scanned all our movies in over the weekend (actually my daughter did about half of them - it was Neat-Oh)... and about 15% wouldn't scan. But for those that don't scan, the remedy isn't just a manual build. You simply find what you're looking for on Amazon and grab the ASIN number (the B0000XXXX) and C&P into the program and PRESTO! it's just like you scanned it.
Once done, you can do all those nifty things like search for how many movies you own with Al Pacino in them. Or movies by whichever director.
You are also two clicks form making a Borrower Profile (which links directly to Address Book) into which you can drag the DVDs that the Borrower is borrowing. It the moves in their profile, and automatically generates a due date, which it also documents in Calendar.
This is as easy as it will ever get.
And it does it with Books and CDs as well.
Five Stars.
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