As a grad student, I often have a ton of books spread out throughout three to six locations. I can never remember where they are and I always have a tough time organizing them. Therefore, when I heard about Library from Delicious Monster, it seemed that I could finally have some scene of control over the amount of information that I was forced to process. I even managed to buy a small portable barcode scanner to take with me to keep organized.
Delicious has revolutionized computer programming in general. Many of the new class of programmers represent the “Delicious Generation” with their approach towards coding, graphical design, and user interaction controls. Users also now expect an easier time to interact with their program and the computer as a whole. This level of interaction leads to a deep point of Delicious representing a new cyber organizational structure.
It is at this point that it seems fair to mention that Delicious Library is only available for Mac users. While there are several clones available for PC, those clones lack the elements that make Delicious Library a unique experience (the clones are not simple, multi-functional nor elegant). It would be fair to point out the Delicious Library represents the ethos of “Web 2.0” and has good design standards that makes any program easy for the user to use. It would seem that Delicious Library allows the user to have control of any asset present it his or her library regardless of their current location. There are already several services that allow the user to control digital assets from any location. However, Delicious Library (with the additional services from Amazon) allows a user to have access to any real-world asset that is in their Delicious Library digital workflow storehouse and have it available in a digital, virtual environment. The real question that comes from this is “can this be used to turn atoms into digital bits?”
