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The software Delicious Library has been around for sometime but I just paid for it recently. I wanted to catalog my books, movies and music and the design is visually appealing. It works well and is able to retrieve information and cover art on almost anything I search. I'm always in the habit of scattering books so I can't find them after I've finished reading, and organizing things was the better option or so I felt. |
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But what good is a shelf of books or movies on your computer? To remind you of things you have forgotten is probably nobler to say than it serves a fetish. However, I do get reminded of thoughts long forgotten on certain topics or subjects just by looking at the organized collection - the modern, prosaic equivalent of Proust's madeleine in Remembrance of Things Past. However, my train of thoughts doesn't run into hundreds of pages. That's a conceit I can't sustain. You do get re-discoveries. I even came to see I had a good book entitled The Vanished Library by Luciano Canfora (about the ancient Library of Alexandria), which read like a detective story. Previously, I mentioned one further use. You can actually input titles of books, music and movies you would wish to have and put them in your shelf. Sometimes to disabuse you of the notion of buying them. Wishful thinking has its ends, or rather, end. |
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