Buy BP and put it on any mac in the same family (under the same roof).Īll that said, DL has some things I like better. Perhaps it is the far richer set of metadata for the books. BP, for no reason that I can really put my finger on yet, seems to be better focused on "serious" bibliophiles. BP supports Smart Collections similar to iTunes. So, when I have to look up a UK book, I have to go into Preferences and switch to Amazon UK.Ĩ. DL only references Amazon sites, and even then only 1 at a time. The very large number of lookup sources in BP as compared to DL. BP's ability to customize export templates, and to publish on. Sort of an answer looking for a problem, but I like it a lot.Ħ. In fairness, two of the items I use custom fields for (series index # and owner) are dedicated fields in DL.ĥ. There is no way in DL to, say, barcode scan 10 books and then have it look them up and add them to your library. BP makes importing a library very easy.ģ. I had to go through some serious hoops to get my Readerware library into DL, even when DL supposedly will import from RW directly. Put simply, importing a library into DL is a pain.
Bookpedia, at least for now, is the overwhelming speed winner.Ģ. This must be a common complaint, and it is one of the key things Wil talks about addressing in his Blog. Scrolling in icon view is very sluggish, and even the table view is not so fast. I have a dual 2.5GHz G5 power Mac with 4.5GB of RAM, and it still takes about 25 bounces to open DL and easily 15 seconds to close it. There are several references to a DL 2 on Wil Shipley's (creater of DL) most excellent web site, Wil Shipley, which hint at addressing several of my beefs I am an owner/user of Readerware, Delicious Library, and now Bookpedia First, a copuple of things you should know:
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