Recently, I spent a fun couple of days putting together a digital bookshelf of all my books with Delicious Library (Mac OS X only). I particularly appreciated being able to view my Kindle and Kobo ebooks, physical hard copy books (of which I still have a few) and Audible audiobooks all in the one place. The software includes a barcode scanner, so you can scan in and add physical hard copy books. Audible audiobooks and iBooks are added via iTunes and I used a drop and drag from the Amazon Manage Your Kindle page to add my Kindle collection. I had to manually search for and add my Kobo books. I should note that Digital Library has full iTunes integration so it also includes your iTunes movies and TV shows. It took me a little while to work out how to include Audible and ebooks on the same shelf – but a quick Google search indicated that I needed to edit my shelf to include both “iTunes Audiobook” and “book” type content. Delicious Library can also generate fascinating stats about your library. For example, I learned that to listen to my entire Audible collection back to back would take me…
Recently, I spent a fun couple of days putting together a digital bookshelf of all my books with Delicious Library (Mac OS X only). I particularly appreciated being able to view my Kindle and Kobo ebooks, physical hard copy books (of which I still have a few) and Audible audiobooks all in the one place. The software includes a barcode scanner, so you can scan in and add physical hard copy books. Audible audiobooks and iBooks are added via iTunes and I used a drop and drag from the Amazon Manage Your Kindle page to add my Kindle collection. I had to manually search for and add my Kobo books. I should note that Digital Library has full iTunes integration so it also includes your iTunes movies and TV shows. It took me a little while to work out how to include Audible and ebooks on the same shelf – but a quick Google search indicated that I needed to edit my shelf to include both “iTunes Audiobook” and “book” type content. Delicious Library can also generate fascinating stats about your library. For example, I learned that to listen to my entire Audible collection back to back would take me…