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Can't Recommend DL - Try BOOXSTER
Authored by: drewk on Nov 17, '04 01:21:54AM
I have 3 days of heavy use of Delicious Library with the Flic barcode scanner, and I cannot recommend it at this time. Problems:

o It is cute with a dozen books, but completely unwieldy with a couple hundred. I have a serious library I am looking to track.

o There is no way to have a location assigned that is unique or intelligent. In other words, THESE books are in the DEN and THESE books are in the BEDROOM. Worse still -- no way to handle books in boxes.

o Scanning fails often. Lots of wierd interface issues with the scanner Delicious sold to me. Worse still, there is no tracking of failed scans, so you will scan 200 books and have 190 in the library -- which of the 200 didn't make it?? You may as well type the ISBN codes...

o Text exports of your library do not work properly

o $40 is not worth it.

I can recommend BOOXSTER as a more industrial and cheaper alternative. Scanning is perfect. BOOXSTER will classify books properly into Dewey classes, look up all relevant data for a book based on ISBN or Library of Congress Codes Numbers (LCCN), and will handle books in more than one place. It looks up it data on several Amazon sites, the Library of Congress, British National Library, etc, and it is $15.

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Can't Recommend DL - Try BOOXSTER - Just Books?
Authored by: Jeff Thompson on Nov 17, '04 09:21:24AM
Booxster looks nice, but it only works with book, right? If it also worked with CD, Video Games, and Movies (both DVDs and VHS) then I would consider it as an option.

Maybe with Booxster and DL competing for the same market, we'll see a feature/performance war as happened with Audion and SoundJam... which in the end makes things all the better for us consumers.

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Can't Recommend DL - Try BOOXSTER
Authored by: mikerose on Nov 17, '04 12:34:19PM

Another 'industrial-strength' library management program is ReaderWare, www.readerware.com -- cross-platform and it works very well. It's nowhere near as pretty as DL but it does support a lot of the professional-level features.



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Can't Recommend DL - Try BOOXSTER
Authored by: drewk on Nov 17, '04 06:21:12PM

I like readerware! Very industrial, and the "import past purchases from Amazon" is magic!

Thanks for the recommendation. I bought the full client server version of all three products.



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Can't Recommend DL - Try BOOXSTER
Authored by: SouthofHeaven on Nov 18, '04 11:11:17AM

So far I am digging booxster. But with most of my complaints is that fleixbility to add fields. I would love to be able to add to booxster a field for a Want list and books on Order. And a few others like fileds for story titles in anthologies so you can see if you have duplicate stories in different anthologies etc. But for the price it is a heafty app.

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Can't Recommend DL - Try BOOXSTER
Authored by: wbdjr on Nov 22, '04 08:10:38PM

Thanks for the info on how it deals with several hundreds items. VERY important. I've got around 650 DVDs, a thousand or so CDs and I don't want to think about how many books. I was going to check out D.L. even though I recently bought and and using a competitor (Book/CD/DVDpedia) but maybe I won't now (especially since they don't support theCueCat scanner and the ones I bought do, as do many others.)

Oh well, it's not like their aren't a zillion competitors. Search Versiontracker.com for 'book', 'cd', 'dvd', 'media', 'audio', or 'video' and you'll find dozens of competitor, some focused on one type of media, some "suites" like Delicious Library. So if DL doesn't do it for you, there are alternatives.

Competition is good.



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