Library
Tommy did a bad bad thing. Well, not really bad, but reasonably naughty. He’s got two days remaining to study for his Atomic, Molecular and Solid State Physics exam, and some silly company releases the best damn Library software he’s ever seen. DVD, CD, Book and Game managing all rolled into one.
A sensible person would think “Oooh, that’d be a nice thing to get after exams,” or at the very least “Ah, $40 US is too much to pay for such an ultimately frivolous thing.”
I am neither of these people, as it turns out. Delicious Library is mine.
So far I have 75 DVDs (that includes box sets as only one a piece, and each Buffy season as 1), 79 books (but only a tiny proportion have been entered) and 6 CDs. OK, so I don’t have many CDs. The limitation is that the app uses amazon.com to get its information from, and of course there’s no amazon.com.au just yet. So I have to guess which country will have DVDs and books most like ours. But apart from that, it’s perfect. It even makes the books different sizes depending on what format they are (Paperback, Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover). I’m in nerd heaven.
Or rather I would be, if it weren’t for this pesky exam. I’d much rather a subject that was marked by assignments every second week or something. Exams were OK for high school, but there’s just too much complexity when you get to third year. Well, for my pitiful grey cells anyhow.
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Mattt
November 14th, 2004 at 4:55 pm
NEEEEEERRRRRRRD!
Andy
November 15th, 2004 at 4:06 am
I second that. What does this program do that you would pay US$40 for? Aside from get pictures from the net and make a virtual bookshelf.
Tom
November 15th, 2004 at 9:15 am
Not just pictures from the net — all the info. And allows me to put in more details. And allows me to keep track of who’s borrowing what. And syncs my collection to my iPod. And …
Well, it was late at night, I was supposed to be studying, I had a moment of weakness. If someone had been online to stop me then things would have gone differently! Ahem. No. I’m pleased with my purchase. It’s nifty. $50 Australian isn’t that much. That’s less than three hours’ work.
Jack
November 15th, 2004 at 12:37 pm
Yeah! Gaming geeks stomp all over you library nerds. This program however seems obscure enough as to not have a crack for it, so I’ll let you off. Unless you know, you like pay for things all the time now.
Andy
November 15th, 2004 at 4:14 pm
Didn’t you already have software that did that?
Tom
November 15th, 2004 at 7:11 pm
The software I had was cracked too and had bugs and I couldn’t upgrade without paying. I figured I may as well go for the best of the best of the best. And I’m sick of cracks, it’s not like I’m poor. Unless the software’s hideously Adobe-level expensive.
Also, this software wouldn’t be cracked for ages as it’s only just come out.
And it’s still half the price of an X-Box game. I want to pay for the software I really like. I’m going to pay for a text editor next, I just can’t decide which one.
hayko
November 16th, 2004 at 9:04 am
Or you can just grab an open source variant. Those things can bet upgraded for free. ;)
Heck I don’t even remember movies. I swapped out that part of the brain to IMDB. How long till I can google my brain?
Tom
November 16th, 2004 at 4:14 pm
Pah. Open Source could never be this pretty. Firefox is the exception.
I think Google will be releasing their mind search around the same time as their OS X Desktop search. Porting these things is so difficult.