Delicious Library - Really so Delicious?
Short answer: sadly no. Why?
- it's really way too slow.
- Big Point: Delicious Monster puts itself in the attributes when linking to amazon and is therefore acting as amazon partner and getting money for every sale after such an link - bad move.
- Absolutely no indication of support for remote access or even cooler rendezvous support. The only way for me to publish my library is to print it (and that even won't let me define order or the attributes I want to print)... (the least would have been a HTML export)
- Every link with this small little arrows points to amazon. I would like to go imdb for movies, and have the possibility to decide for myself where this arrows link to
- Even though I cannot change where the arrows link to, it always links to amazon.com where most of my items aren't in store...
- Some of the metadata pulled from amazon is just crap. There is so much useless information that is put in "genre"
- Many missing details, from the context-menu to the non-resizable details window and pane, the search button and add button should be more prominent in the upper right corner, no way of viewing my library more space saving, no cool detail view for multiple items, "Find by Title" although the creator is also searched for, find by title finds books when adding movies, no "next page" for search results, much to much debug information put in the console.log, display bugs (find again writes itself over the title), as a german I'm not able to find an english version of "Harry Potter 5", ...
So I'm really disappointed. It really looks good, but good looks isn't everything. Maybe all of this will be worked out in future versions, but IMHO this release is a beta at best.
21:45 - Mittwoch, 10. November 2004