Delicious Library

This looks, really, really cool.

Site Link: Delicious Library

6 Comments

Comments

1. João Ribeiro said:

What is it?

I can’t see it with Firefox on Windows (says it requires Safari or OmniWeb on MacOS X).

Posted on October 11, 2004 10:28 AM | #

2. patrick h. lauke said:

yes, a blast from the past here with the “site requirements not met” page…
in the meantime, we’ll take your word for it that it’s cool ;)

Posted on October 11, 2004 11:30 AM | #

3. Hayo said:

Everybody álways forgets that minority group of windows users! ;-)

Posted on October 11, 2004 11:38 AM | #

4. Keith said:

Well, in there defense, it is a Mac only product. But, yeah, those kinds of messages are a bit lame.

Anyway, the product is descibed thus:

Run your very own library from your home or office using our impossibly simple interface. Delicious Library’s digital shelves act as a visual card-catalog of your books, movies, music and video games. A scan of a barcode is all Delicious Library needs to add an item to your digital shelves, downloading tons of info from the internet like the author, release date, current value, description, and even a high-resolution picture of the cover. Import your entire library using our exclusive full-speed iSight video barcode scanner, our Flic Wireless Laser Bar Code Scanner, or (the slow way) entering the titles by hand. Once you have all of your items in your Mac, you can browse though your digital shelves, check stuff out to friends using Apple’s built-in Address Book and calendar, and find new items to read, watch, and play using Library’s recommendations. Delicious Library is coming very soon, so bear with us. We promise it will be worth the wait!

Posted on October 11, 2004 12:19 PM | #

mCatalog is a similar application written in C# using Mono & GTK#. It’s still in very early alpha stage (version 0.0.1) but it definately has promise. It’s also open-source, which is a plus in my book.

Right now it only supports books & movies but does allow for you to track who you’ve lent things too. Definately an app to watch.

Posted on October 11, 2004 01:51 PM | #

6. Joshua Marker said:

The linux crowd (no offense, I’m one myself) always knows _some_ ‘similar application’ written with an alphabet soup of standards and languages. It’s always in early alpha, and it’s always a little buggy but promising.
(Can you hold books up to your iSight to add them?)

These guys wrote Omni! I can’t wait.

Posted on October 28, 2004 09:12 AM | #