The Delicious Library, using my iSight to scan barcodes
I typed in a title and an author by hand, clicked on the link to do a quick Amazon search, and then dragged and dropped the Amazon.com URL directly from the browser onto the library shelf, at which point it just added it to my collection with all the associated meta-data. Nice...
Am I impressed enough to buy it?
Yes, it looks very much like I am. I just used the licensing popup to pay my $39.95 for a full license, and this was also a seamlessly impressive experience. A popup appeared, I typed my credit card number into it, which was dispatched (encrypted) to the company's website and verified (and presumably billed). The application then automagically acquired a license. No cut and paste from the verification email, it just worked. Again, nice...
Should I be worried that I have 97 books in my office? Of course, the really depressing thing is that 16 of these are on Java and only 10 are on Perl. There is definately something wrong there...
ReplyDeleteTim has pointed me towards ReaderWare, which is attempts to resolve the scanned item against a range of web sites, not just Amazon.com. This is a crucial functionality improvement for people trying to identify obscure titles.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand the interface looks very poor compared to Delicious Library which as you can see from the screenshots is, like everything Mac, just beautiful.
Of course it also has, for me, the killer feature that I can do my barcode scanning using my iSight. I'd love to buy one of the new Bluetooth barcode scanners, but I can't really justify it...