![]() It even reads out the titles as they are added. The scanner has a memory, so you can zip into an adjoining room, scan all the barcodes on a shelf, zip back and let the scanner pour the shelf’s inventory into DL. I filed a feature request with them in 2008 for precisely this, and I do not know when they added it, but it makes a world of difference. If you select a shelf on the left sidebar, then scan a barcode, the book is automatically added to the selected shelf. It is quite expensive at well over $200, specially compared to the inexpensive Symbol CS1504, but the convenience makes it well worth the price if you have a serious library to wrangle. It can read ISBN bar codes using the iSight camera included in most Macs, but a better option is to use the Microvision RoV Bluetooth barcode scanner they sell and support. You may think recording the location of each book would be a mind-numbing task, but Delicious Library makes it effortless. This way, I can browse shelf by shelf or box by box, or conversely look up the location of a book I need. I literally have one DL shelf for each shelf in my bookshelves, one for each box in storage, and one for all the books I keep at work. At some point I discovered Delicious Library has a writeable location field in its database for every item, and you can create virtual shelves to organize your books. With well over 900 books, I needed a system to manage. Here is a montage of mine alone, not including the books I reluctantly had to consign to storage, or those in my parents’ basement back in France: We are squarely in the demographic for the Bookshelf porn website. My wife and I are both avid readers-one of our common dreams is to someday have a home with a dedicated room for a library. ![]() ![]() It seems like a novelty for collector-fondlers, and I myself unfairly dismissed it as a toy in 2008, but behind its playful user interface lies a remarkably powerful organizational tool, and the new 2.5 version has made major improvements in stability and performance after 2 years of relative neglect. Essentially, it is a database for your books, CDs and DVDs (version 2 added gadgets), and it looks glorious on a large monitor like mine. Also products look great while on the shelves, and that really help me out in satisfying my daily dose of ego.Delicious Library is one of the slickest apps on the Mac, and won countless design accolades. Shelves are gorgeous: not only they’re pixel perfect and well designed overall, they of feel real. I find it very useful anyway, but perhaps you’d like to hide it to get the greatest eye candy from the shelves view. There’s an additional info right panel too, but you can hide it if you wish. Each category has a badge showing how many items belong to it. The interface is indeed made of wooden shelves that collect your stuff and a vertical sidebar that contains the different types of products, like Videogames, Music and so on. So, I had to enter each product manually, just by remembering the stuff I have and / or deciding what I wanted to add and what I wanted to stay on my real shelves. One of the most popular features of the app is the barcode scanning recognition, but I’m afraid I can talk about it as every item I own has been purchased in Italy - and Italy is not among the supported countries (though some friends of mine told it should work anyway, but not for everything). You basically have to enter each product you own into DeliciousLibrary database. Enough for the interface, let’s see how it works. Don’t get me wrong, it’s sexy - it just needs another refresh in my opinion. It’s a mix of old and new elements, like Chris Voll exceptionally outlined in this post, where he also mocked up a new interface for Delicious Library (3.0?). No doubt Delicious Library evolved and got better since the 1.0 version (it’s got more features, more stability, more everything) but the interface hasn’t changed that much overall. ![]() The developers got it right at their first shot, and they’re still seeing the results. So, you’re getting the importance this application had in redefining the guidelines of designing a beautiful app for Mac OS X. It even created the Delicious Generation apps trend. Since its official launch back in 2004 Delicious Library received many awards for its outstanding and pixel-perfect wooden-like interface. Let’s go straight to the point and talk about the element of Delicious Library you’ll immediately notice: the user interface. Think of it as a digital assistant for your physical stuff. It basically collects and sorts all the items you enter. By items I mean CDs, movies, videogames, toys, apparel, gadgets and tools, that’s what the app supports right now. The idea behind Delicious Library is really that simple: collect and organize the items you own.
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