buy Delicious Library

Delicious Library is a beautiful piece of software, but it’s no use buying it unless you use it. Unfortunately, I haven’t really kept up with keeping it updated. If you get one, and you don’t have an iSight, go to cuecats.com and get yourself a $9 modified CueCat. They work just fine for scanning barcodes.

There is a wonderful website by the name of LibraryThing that can take your book collection from Delicious Library (or you can enter it by hand).

You can tag your books, see other books thus tagged, other people who tagged the same book the way you did, see people who own similar books to you, or tag books in general the way you do, and then see their book collections!

It’s the reason to buy Delicious Library!

However I have a new goal on 43Things to actually sit down and scan all my stuff. This is not easy with a 17mo baby :-)

I don’t think it was “worth it” because it is a chore but it’s definitely cool. I’ll be ready for whatever delicious monster rolls out in the next release.

This is the best $40 I’ve spent on OSX software to date!! NetNewswire (OSX RSS news reader) is right up there too at $30.

Last Friday I finally pulled the trigger and bought it! My wife found it really funnay watching me grabbing all books, DVDs, Xbox games, and anything else with a barcard on it to scan. The iSight integration is ingenious! She later agreed it was cool. As an unexpected bonus from filling up the lirary, I’ve sold 3 books on Amazon within a week. That was a first for me. In Delicious Libary there is a link to “sell on Amazon” next to every item and its “market value” which I guess is an average culled from Amzaon’s marketplace. The three books have yielded $15. Not bad considering the books were already in the garage near the trash can. See for yourself: Delicious Library