Comments on: Three Weeks with Delicious Library 2

By: Johnny

Johnny — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:02:31 +0000

You can type in the ISBN or if all else fails you can look the product up on Amazon.com and copy the ISBN from the product details page. Comic books included. I’m disappointed at how difficult it is to get the scanner to work, but if all else fails I just type the ISBN in and it shows up. There is a new free iPhone app for Delicious Library, but it only lets you view your library. I was hoping I would be able to scan my items in with it. All said, it’s nice to be able to document your items for that just-in-case factor and I haven’t run into a situation yet where it couldn’t find what I was trying to scan (though, sometimes it gave me a newer copy of a book when I had the older version).

By: John Athayde

John Athayde — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:40:57 +0000

The ISBN feature requires that you type in the ISBN (or UPC for that matter) with no hyphens, which is quite annoying and not self evident.

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By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:08:50 +0000

So what I would like to figure out is now that I have some 2500 volumes scanned in how can I find them on my shelves with delicious library search?

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By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:05:23 +0000

One thing that disappointed me about Version 1 was that the shelves in the software didn’t behave like physical shelves. What I mean is that, if a shelf wasn’t full and there was plenty of horizontal space on screen, Shelf 2 would just carry on horizontally from Shelf 1, rather than starting on a new line as I expected.
Has anyone noticed whether this is still the case?

By: Reginald W

Reginald W — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:48:30 +0000

“I too have had the problem of the item added being completely different when I scanned it in. It only happened with old paperbacks (circa 1950 to 1960). Somehow the UPC did not match to the correct ISBN. When I entered the correct ISBN in the search box the book was looked up perfectly.”

The UPC is most likely a sticker and the data is not specific to that book. UPC codes didn’t exist back in the 50′s or 60′s. A special UPC code series allows for items that don’t have a UPC code to be entered into a POS (point of sale system) with the location entering in ALL the data description. Another store could use a different UPC for the same item and a different description.

By: Jethro Jones

Jethro Jones — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:07:18 +0000

@Galley You are so right! I can’t believe I forgot that. It makes no sense to have it horizontal.

@Gideon, Good name, that is my brother’s name, too. For Bibliography go to File->Export->To Another Application…->Bibliography

@Joel and Brian, I guess I have just had bad luck. I tried entering in the ISBN with a book that wouldn’t scan, and one that was already in my library, and I could only search by ISBN with the one that was in my library.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:51:27 +0000

s/ISBM/ISBN/g;

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:07:08 +0000

@Jethro – I have successfully entered ISBN (10 or 13) numbers in the search box to add books. Probably about 20 to 25% of my library are books entered by ISBM in DL2.

@Joe L. – I leave the iSight on all the time and it never turns itself off. I can hold up a book to the camera, scan it, and even while it is still looking up the book online, scan the next book. It’s very fast.

I too have had the problem of the item added being completely different when I scanned it in. It only happened with old paperbacks (circa 1950 to 1960). Somehow the UPC did not match to the correct ISBN. When I entered the correct ISBN in the search box the book was looked up perfectly.

I love this program. The greatest benefit I can see is from an insurance perspective. I can publish everything I own (just about) on the web. If I were to ever lose it due to a catastrophe or a burglary, I would have an extensive knowledge of what needed to be replaced. Also, just cataloging where all of my books exist in the house (on which bookshelf and section of the bookshelf) has helped immensely when I have been looking for a book.