Delicious Library

Comments on Delicious Library:

• John Siracusa
• Christopher Clark
• Erik Barzeski
• Sven-S. Porst
• Me:
  • It looks great, except for the wood.
  • iSight and DV-cam barcode scanning: sounds cool, but I don’t have the hardware.
  • In investigating how to get my existing data into it, I found that it’s not scriptable and there’s no documentation about the supported import formats (or anything else, for that matter, aside from the FAQ).
  • The Details view doesn’t auto-complete like Address Book.
  • It’s full of links to Amazon, but unfortunately can’t log in and import my purchase history.
  • Not all the fields are searchable.
  • It doesn’t remember my borrowers list between sessions. The borrowers are sorted by first name, rather than last name, and they don’t really scale up: the only way to find a particular borrower is to scroll through the list.
  • There doesn’t seem to be a way to batch-assign metadata (such as location or owner), as in iTunes.
  • I think it’s missing a field for My Category. I categorize items my own way, and I don’t want to use the Genre field for this, as it will get wiped out if I reload the data from Amazon. In fact, I think it needs support for labels and a bunch of custom fields.
  • Overall reaction: nice, but I don’t know what I’d use it for.