![]() ![]() 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. If you have more than one ebook, calibre is a must have app for your PC.Delicious Library allows you to import, browse, and share all your books, movies, music, and video games with Delicious Library. One of the popular features of calibre is its ability to sync books from any format automatically to Amazon Kindle using USB cable or email. I created my calibre library in my iMac to my shared OneDrive folder, synced it to my Surface Pro (Windows 8,1 Update) and everything works fine. Best of all the calibre library (just like iTunes library) can be synced between PCs across OSes. It allows excellent meta-tagging of books, searching of books and sports a clutter free reader view. Its available for free download for all 3 desktop OS (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux) and numerous compatible apps from 3rd party exists for iOS, Android & Windows Phone.Ĭalibre allows you to import ebooks from various formats, export to all imaginable ebook formats including ePub, PDF, Mobi & Kindle. So I turned again to calibre.Ĭalibre is a free and open source e-book library management and ereader, written by Kovid Goyal. iBooks won’t help in Windows, which was a major dampener for me. Since I use Apple iTunes to manage all my music, videos and iPhotos for pictures, I turned to Apple iBooks (now in Mac OS) but that didn’t work out. But I realized I have lot of ebooks from non-amazon sources especially PDFs of magazines I subscribe like IEEE Spectrum which needed better management than simply storing in OneDrive shared folders. While I have used calibre – ebook management in the past, those usages were limited and I had mostly used it as a ereader.īooks I bought from Amazon goes into my Kindle Touch and managed easily from. ![]()
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