![]() ![]() I'm now on the third major version of DL, and it is just as slow as it was when it first came out. Sure, there are apps that crash, and apps that don't work at all, but Delicious Library works just enough that you keep trying to use it. This may be one of the worst Mac apps of all time. At that rate the staff of the new downtown Seattle Central Library could work together to import all of their 1.4 million books into Delicious Library in just over 5 hours. This results in a seamless process of scanning that lets you import about 750 items an hour (assuming you can move your arms that fast). Using the same technology found in $800 industrial-strength CCD barcode scanners, Delicious Library reads every single frame of digital video seeking out, targeting, and instantly decoding any visible barcodes. Just hold the barcode on the back of any book, movie, CD, or video game in front of the camera and your item magically shows up on your digital shelf seconds later. Quickly importing your stuff into Delicious Library doesn't require a dedicated barcode scanner - you can use any QuickTime-supported digital video camera, like your Apple iSight. Once you have all of your items in your Mac, you can browse though your digital shelves, check stuff out to friends using Apple's built-in Address Book and calendar, and find new items to read, watch, and play using Library's recommendations. Import your entire library using our exclusive full-speed iSight video barcode scanner, our Flic Wireless Laser Bar Code Scanner, or (the slow way) entering the titles by hand. Delicious Library's digital shelves act as a visual card-catalog.Ī scan of a barcode is all Delicious Library needs to add an item to your digital shelves, downloading tons of info from the Internet like the author, release date, current value, description, and even a high-resolution picture of the cover. Run your very own library from your home or office using our impossibly simple interface. S.Delicious Library allows you to import, browse, and share all your books, movies, music, and video games with Delicious Library. Hope this all makes sense, and feel free to ask questions. Once you're OK with what is imported and you've done any necessary clean-up, you can then copy the books over to your main library).įor adding new books, I only use the LLR program if I have over 40 books to import if fewer than that, I simply use the " Add empty book" function in Calibre and fill out the metadata fields one at a time. ( A tip: it's probably best if you create a separate library for the import that way, if anything goes wrong, it doesn't interfere with your main library. csv file generated, I delete all books except the ones with the tag " newbooks", I do other necessary cleanup (once again, this cleanup will depend on how much detail you want to carry over to your Calibre library), and then I import the. As for what to include in the report (bottom left of screenshot below), it all depends on what details you want available in your Calibre library:įor ongoing additions, I use the report titled " All books by Tag" I first tag all new additions with a tag like " newbooks" (or something similar), and then the actual tags. For your first import, I would advise the report titled " All books as found in Logos Catalog DB". Hi John, welcome to the forums, and I apologize for the late reply. Paper books can be scanned in as they come in. Once I have it created I can export that database and use that as a base and add new purchases from Logos and Kindle. The hassle is combining all this data into the format that Book Crawler uses, but it is doable. Paper books can be scanned using the isbn code or manually searching with title information. This will take the database and extract it into a format that I can use in Excel.įor Kindle I found a process to copy the screen showing the list of books and using a text editor and regular expression clean up the data. The process takes a bit of text manipulation to clean up the data and delete fields as you bring in Logos data into the Book Crawler format.įor Logos, I use the Windows app, Logos Lib Reporter. I can also import the tags from Logos as I have tagged each resource. I focus on the fields of Author, Title, Series, Publisher. They have a Mac app but I am not familiar with it. ![]() This involves extracting the lists of books from Logos and Kindle and manually inputting paper books. What I have done is maintain a database on the ios platform. I have books in paper, Kindle and Logos format and it is difficult to remember where a given book is. I don't know how to link directly to a posting within a thread. This is from another forum thread that I responded to once. ![]()
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