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Delicious Library alternatives
Catalog your books, movies, music, software, toys, tools, electronics, & video games. Import all your stuff onto your digital shelves using your Mac’s iSight webcam, our wireless barcode scanner, or your keyboard. The best Delicious Library alternative is Calibre
Here are the latest news about Delicious Library:
2020. Mac-based eBook management software Delicious Library 3.9 limits Amazon update fields
Delicious Library developers say that Amazon has replaced their current “Product Advertising” (version 4) interface - which the program uses to download all information when you scan items into your library. Unfortunately version 5, currently doesn't support all the functionality of version 4: editorial reviews, similar items, customer ratings, track lists (music), minutes (music & movie), series (books) and deweyDecimal are not yet in version 5 and Amazon has made no promise they'll be back. Amazon is now returning some authors last-name-first, like "Asimov, Isaac," so DL modified sorting by author so it recognizes this and sorts correctly (eg, still using last name first). Besides this, the new Delicious Library 3.9 has been updated for Catalina and can now recognize Kindle books as books. Developers also fixed a drawing bug where the ratings widget on the Details popover pane could look like it was always five stars on Mojave and above, fixed an interaction bug where scrolling down to during a Search wouldn't always trigger an Amazon lookup of the search terms. Mostly empty items with only a category (Book, Video, etc) and a title now look up correctly only in the right category.
2017. Delicious Library restricted to looking up items on Amazon US and Amazon Canada only.
Book management software for Mac Delicious Library will no longer update ebook metadata from Amazon, at least from European Amazon sites. The Amazon platforms in Germany, Italy, France, Japan, Spain and the United Kingdom have all chosen to end their relationship with Delicious Monster this week. Amazon sites in the United States and Canada will continue to function for now (though they are predominantly in English and primarily offer items for sale in North America). Amazon remains steadfast in restricting third-party ebook software and apps from accessing its content (whether on Kindle or in the bookstore). The company aims to establish itself as the sole book provider and control every aspect of how you engage with book content. Remember the 1984 issue?
2013. Delicious Library 3 gets smart recommendations
The latest iteration of home library software for Mac, Delicious Library 3, has been launched. The most intriguing new feature is Smart recommendations. This new tool examines your collections, ratings and wishlist to create suggestions based on your collector profile. If any of your friends possess any of the recommended items, Delicious Library highlights them for you. Now you can share your library with friends, borrow items you need and lend items out—Delicious Library 3 simplifies tracking your possessions. The new Charts feature lets you view the current value of your collection, total page count and other engaging data presented in stylish charts. The iPhone app Delicious Scanner is now more portable, literally. Have an iPhone? Download our app and you, too, can carry a handheld scanner in your pocket.
2008. Delicious Library 2 gets HTML export
Mac-centric personal library software Delicious Library. There are over a hundred new features in DL2, along with hundreds more bug fixes. Specifically, the software introduced an HTML export capability. Clicking an item in this web-based library will show a pop-up at the bottom of the browser containing description details that the user has entered in DL2 or retrieved from Amazon, as well as the user's rating of the media. It's reasonable to assume that this display will be customizable, allowing the user to choose whether information like item ratings or even sections of the library appear in exported HTML sites. As if sharing your library on the web isn't enough, the sites that DL2 generates are very iPhone-compatible. This includes the various sections of the library and the pop-up informational display, though there are (naturally) slight UI variations.
2004. Delicious Library - a new book library software for Mac
Delicious Library is a new digital asset management software for Mac OS X that allows you to track and organize your physical book collections. When you first open the application, Delicious Library provides a sample library to start with. Delicious has relatively simple preferences, though you can disable the audio settings (which is advisable if you plan to scan a large number of books). By default, Delicious will display your iTunes books and audiobooks. All you need to do is enter a keyword to search for a book. Delicious Library will fetch the image and metadata. If you have a USB or Bluetooth barcode scanner, you can use it to scan item barcodes. Delicious Library also allows you to scan barcodes using your computer’s built-in iSight camera. While it functions quite effectively, you can also manually input ISBNs. Delicious Library automatically retrieves metadata, such as summaries. If you are uncertain about the edition of the book, you can click "More Info" to view it on Amazon. Once you have added it, you can also include your own review or rating.
2020. Mac-based eBook management software Delicious Library 3.9 limits Amazon update fields
Delicious Library developers say that Amazon has replaced their current “Product Advertising” (version 4) interface - which the program uses to download all information when you scan items into your library. Unfortunately version 5, currently doesn't support all the functionality of version 4: editorial reviews, similar items, customer ratings, track lists (music), minutes (music & movie), series (books) and deweyDecimal are not yet in version 5 and Amazon has made no promise they'll be back. Amazon is now returning some authors last-name-first, like "Asimov, Isaac," so DL modified sorting by author so it recognizes this and sorts correctly (eg, still using last name first). Besides this, the new Delicious Library 3.9 has been updated for Catalina and can now recognize Kindle books as books. Developers also fixed a drawing bug where the ratings widget on the Details popover pane could look like it was always five stars on Mojave and above, fixed an interaction bug where scrolling down to during a Search wouldn't always trigger an Amazon lookup of the search terms. Mostly empty items with only a category (Book, Video, etc) and a title now look up correctly only in the right category.
2017. Delicious Library restricted to looking up items on Amazon US and Amazon Canada only.
Book management software for Mac Delicious Library will no longer update ebook metadata from Amazon, at least from European Amazon sites. The Amazon platforms in Germany, Italy, France, Japan, Spain and the United Kingdom have all chosen to end their relationship with Delicious Monster this week. Amazon sites in the United States and Canada will continue to function for now (though they are predominantly in English and primarily offer items for sale in North America). Amazon remains steadfast in restricting third-party ebook software and apps from accessing its content (whether on Kindle or in the bookstore). The company aims to establish itself as the sole book provider and control every aspect of how you engage with book content. Remember the 1984 issue?
2013. Delicious Library 3 gets smart recommendations
The latest iteration of home library software for Mac, Delicious Library 3, has been launched. The most intriguing new feature is Smart recommendations. This new tool examines your collections, ratings and wishlist to create suggestions based on your collector profile. If any of your friends possess any of the recommended items, Delicious Library highlights them for you. Now you can share your library with friends, borrow items you need and lend items out—Delicious Library 3 simplifies tracking your possessions. The new Charts feature lets you view the current value of your collection, total page count and other engaging data presented in stylish charts. The iPhone app Delicious Scanner is now more portable, literally. Have an iPhone? Download our app and you, too, can carry a handheld scanner in your pocket.
2008. Delicious Library 2 gets HTML export
Mac-centric personal library software Delicious Library. There are over a hundred new features in DL2, along with hundreds more bug fixes. Specifically, the software introduced an HTML export capability. Clicking an item in this web-based library will show a pop-up at the bottom of the browser containing description details that the user has entered in DL2 or retrieved from Amazon, as well as the user's rating of the media. It's reasonable to assume that this display will be customizable, allowing the user to choose whether information like item ratings or even sections of the library appear in exported HTML sites. As if sharing your library on the web isn't enough, the sites that DL2 generates are very iPhone-compatible. This includes the various sections of the library and the pop-up informational display, though there are (naturally) slight UI variations.
2004. Delicious Library - a new book library software for Mac
Delicious Library is a new digital asset management software for Mac OS X that allows you to track and organize your physical book collections. When you first open the application, Delicious Library provides a sample library to start with. Delicious has relatively simple preferences, though you can disable the audio settings (which is advisable if you plan to scan a large number of books). By default, Delicious will display your iTunes books and audiobooks. All you need to do is enter a keyword to search for a book. Delicious Library will fetch the image and metadata. If you have a USB or Bluetooth barcode scanner, you can use it to scan item barcodes. Delicious Library also allows you to scan barcodes using your computer’s built-in iSight camera. While it functions quite effectively, you can also manually input ISBNs. Delicious Library automatically retrieves metadata, such as summaries. If you are uncertain about the edition of the book, you can click "More Info" to view it on Amazon. Once you have added it, you can also include your own review or rating.
1. Start screen is loaded with sample stuff and will not allow deleting other than starting over.
2. None of the options for adding existing ebooks is obvious or simple.
3. Keep looking
As with v2, I find the functionality of DL3 wonderful. It does everything I need, efficiently and thoroughly. But I don't get real joy from it any more, other than the not inconsiderable joy of an app just working well.
I find the overall UI philosophy to be overly gimmicky, cutesy, and precious. I would much rather have a standard looking and behaving Mac app than all the non-standard UI tricks. They are confusing and add absolutely nothing to the user experience.
Designwise, let's just say that skeumorphism is dead, and all of the choices of wood grains are ridiculous. Who could possibly care which kind of tree the faux bookshelves are supposed to look like? What if I want a sleek modern look, or even a basic IKEA look, or even NO look at all?
Still, those compaints aside, I love being able to just hold a new book up to my computer's camera and have it entered in my library.