yeah, a great app. just to clarify something, any firewire enabled video camera should work to scan in items- the isight is not a requirement. i’ll add to that wishlist more printing options. i have all my dvds in a 3 ring binder and it would be nice to have a printout that is readable. as it is now printing out titles results in text so small that a magnifying glass is needed.

as for sharing, i make it a point to share with my family and friends. first thing i did was export a list and email it out to them. i’ve got 10 out on loan right now so i’m happy with the ability to keep track of that. if sharing is done with respect it can save all parties involved alot of money!

If you aren’t going to use the iSight with iChat, save yourself $135 and buy a modded USB Cuecat barcode scanner off eBay for $15.

I note that Delicious Library “stores your library in a standard XML file, so hAxOrZ can export to virtually any other format.” This opens up a whole set of possibilities.

joe: I’m not sure “hAxOrZ” are the target market for this product, but if you have some cool scripts or transformations to share, I’d love to peak at ‘em.

Delicious Library is very good. A proper OS X app if their even was one.

I just want to know why it always picks the Xbox version of my games. I don’t even have an Xbox. There’s a conspiracy in there somewhere.

I haven’t tried it, but there is a third-party app that exports your library as a web page.

Also, in terms of searching for a book and finding which box it’s in, try populating the Location In Building field (in the 2nd pane). Just open a shelf, select all in the shelf, go to edit mode and type the location into that field - all the books in the shelf will then have that location set, and you can look it up easily after searching for the book.

I like the loaned feature, although I wish it didn’t require a return date to be set. This way I can check out movies from my dad and he can keep track of them in Delicious Library. I can also loan games to my brother and I can keep track of them.

One thing that I’d really like to see is the ability to set template values, so if I’m going to scan in a bunch of movies that belong to my dad I can set the Owner field to my dad’s name in the template, scan them in, then clear the template, and have all the movies have the Owner field set to my dad. I think that would be really useful and I hope it gets added to a future release. I’d also like to see Smart Shelves, so I can have a shelf that automatically contains all the movies that are owned by my dad, so I can look through them easily without having to maintain the shelf myself.

In terms of networking and friend libraries and such, I think those were planned for a future release.

Tyler - it’s Amazon’s fault. Delicious Library sends the query to Amazon and gives you the result. Try looking for similar items.

Quick tip: try pressing the option key when looking at similar items. It lets you add the item to your library instead of to your shopping cart.

Wow, thanks, Kevin! That’s all super-helpful.

I’ve only played with DL once, it seems like a really cool product except it’s virtually unusable outside of the US and UK/EU, since the barcodes differ from different pressings of CDs and region releases of DVDs. Le sigh.

I’ve tried the demo and the major problem for me is that I am in Australia and have lots of Australian books/DVDs hence they are either not found or they are not strictly the correct versions.

I’d love if this linked into other international or localised title databases somehow, although most of the ones actual libraries use charge a fair bit of money for bibliographic records. Most services such as Books In Print are mainly catering for the librarians, booksellers and publishers market, and not the personal, home-use market.

Does anyone know of any other bibliographic services (instead of Amazon) that allow public access of their records that this may be linked into in future?