![]() The whole interface, despite having way more options than I have time to play in time for this post, feels clean and simple, as opposed to, what– I want to borrow a term of contention from the games industry and say, DL2’s “console-ified” (dumbed-down and/or smoothed over for a younger audience) interface. In the default cover view, covers can be resized at will with a slider (as opposed to DL2’s total lack of control in this respect). After that, there are multiple Details templates you can apply to the “Info” panel that allow you to customize the display of detailed information and summaries. There’s also a list view and a coverflow view. I prefer white, which is the default option. Whereas DL2’s Shelf view is sort of ugly and fake looking, Bookpedia displays book covers on a completely adjustable monochrome background. The correct edition popped up instantly when I searched for it just now.)īruji’s Pedias (Should I be referring to these some other way? Hmmm… From here on out, I’ll be talking simply about Bookpedia, but from my own tests, it seems that the rest of the Pedias have very similar functionality.) have a really clean user interface that I prefer over DL2’s UI. ![]() The only book I couldn’t find the right cover for was my older edition of Remembering the Kanji I by James W. It handled all my obtuse Japanese reference books without breaking a sweat and there wasn’t a single dictionary or novel that I couldn’t easily import. When I intially played around with this feature and compared it to DL2, I came to the mistaken conclusion that the scanning in Bruji’s Pedias was subpar, but today, when I went back to it and went through every book that I could find in my apartment with a barcode on it, I found that it was uncannily accurate. You can even scan in barcodes with any iSight camera. You can add books one at a time, or many at a time. There are a ton of places that Bookpedia is willing to search for information on your books including all the Amazon sites, the Library of Congress, AngusRobertson, (an Australian bookseller) and even the Royal Library of Sweden. Impressions.Īs you can see, Bookpedia (in this example), is awesome. See my post about Apple’s font panel, for instance. Bloggers like to focus on vaporware and betas because, ultimately, we like to complain. Bruji, on the other hand, seems to release updated builds fairly frequently– and for free, giving them no time to hype up the latest paid point release that took a year to add in minor functionality. From what I understand, the delay between DL 1.6 and 2.0 was massive, which gave him (Shipley) a lot of time to build his product up and hype the beta releases and whatnot. Now, I don’t know why Bruji’s Pedias don’t get any coverage on The Unofficial Apple Weblog or Daring Fireball, but my gut feeling is that Bruji can’t hype its own releases the way developers like Wil Shipley can. While my last entry covered Delicious Library 2, I feel compelled now to talk about far better product(s) that just don’t get the hype they deserve, Bruji’s Pedias. My things are scattered in boxes, strewn throughout multiple houses and ultimately divided by some 5000 or so miles, as far as my current situation in Japan is concerned. It was another great use for a great machine and infinitely useful for someone like me who’s been moving around (between houses, states, and countries, even) every year for the last 6 years of my life. I liked the idea, a way of cataloging one’s media on the computer. ![]() I bought this MBP back in October and initially discovered Delicious Library through some of the folks on the MacHeist site. If there’s anything Delicious Monster (of Delicious Library) does well, its advertising. And the end result? Me spending more money. Now, I’m not sure how he found that post– what pond he’s dipping his net into, but it inspired me to get in gear and take the Pedias through their ‘paces. Just when I thought nobody was reading this blog, I get a comment from Conor, the “Top Dog” over at Bruji’s site telling me to post my impressions of the Pedias (CD, DVD, etc.) when I got a chance. ![]()
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