Karen and I want to keep all of our books & movies in a library, and we found a couple of programs.  Hopefully, the library will be able to keep track of all our books & movies with pictures with extended information, and with the ability to export so we can even manage some of the books on this website.

Delicious Library 2

We found the following program, Delicious Library 2, on the internet while looking for library programs for our books, and movies.  We have not tried it yet.

Here is a description of the program.  It is only for Macs.

When we demo Delicious Library to people, about of them instantly say this:

Wait, I just hold a CD or DVD or video game or book or whatever up to my webcam, and it magically reads the UPC and downloads that item’s cover and all pertinent information about it, and displays all my stuff on photorealistic shelves? I’ll take it! Right now! This is why I bought a computer in the first place! ”  But a few people are skeptical, or slightly less obsessive. “Ok,” they say, “then I have my stuff in my computer. Big whoop. I can just look at my real shelf, right now, for free.”

And we say, “True, but have you ever had someone break in and steal all your CDs or DVDs? Your insurance company wants an exact list of what you had, but you can’t remember every last thing, and so for years afterwards you think, ‘Drat, I forgot to list Rocky Horror Picture Show, and now it’s too late!’ Well, with Delicious Library you always have a complete inventory of your stuff, with replacement costs. You can print it or back it up to the web, so it’s not going anywhere.

Ur, have you ever loaned a book or DVD or $200 DeWalt Cordless Driver to a friend, and forgotten which friend? And then bought another? With Delicious Library you just drag any item onto any friend from your Address Book, and it’ll remember the loan for you — and even put an entry in iCal reminding you when it’s due. Or maybe you have something lying around you don’t use, like an out-of-print book, that’s worth serious bucks and you don’t know it? Because with Delicious Library 2 you always know the current value of your things, and can put your used items up for sale with three clicks. Or maybe you just want to publish your library to the web and share it with your friends...”

At this point, usually the only people who aren’t buying are the ones who don’t own Macs. To them, we say: we’re sorry. For the rest of you... enjoy.

Feature Info

• Web Publishing
• Lots of Categories
• Large Libraries
• iPhone export
• Bibliography
• Voice search
• Three click selling (on Amazon)
• Import & Export
• iPod Sync
• Printing
• iTunes-like shelves
• iSight Scanning
• Bluetooth Scanning
• Apple Remote
• Item Checkout

iBookshelf for iPhone/iPod

iBookshelf is a program that we bought for our iPhones.  We found it before Delicious Library 2, it does not have as many features and it is only available for the iPhone.  It was not rated as good as Delicious Library 2.

So far we think it is a good program for entering ISBN numbers or scanning ISBN numbers from the back of a book.  We have used it about 10-20 times, and it scans the large barcode ISBNs easily but books with smaller barcodes it tends not to be able to scan and identify the barcode.  We have to enter in the smaller barcodes manually.  After a book is scanned in manually, you can import data from the internet to your phone so you can update things like the author, book name, and the front page of the book.

Other options are you can indicate if you lent out your book or read your book.

We are happy with iBookshelf.  We used it at chapters a couple of days ago and scanned 2-3 books, and manually entered 4-5 books.  We will be categorizing all our books in either application.