my organizational side run amok

I installed Delicious Library earlier and have spent all afternoon and evening scanning in barcodes from my CD’s, DVD’s, books, and games. Wow, that sounds like the dorkiest thing ever: while everyone else in this country is watching the Superbowl, I’m sitting alone in my apartment, waving barcodes at my computer. I feel I have to redeem myself now… Um, I have lots of dates! I go to movies with my friends! I take a yoga class! Yeah…

Anyway, it’s really neat because it uses my Macbook’s iSight camera to scan in barcodes, then it grabs information about the product from Amazon. Now I can browse through all my media without leaving my laptop, and what’s nice is that I can sort things by Amazon users’ rating, genre, number of pages, etc. See this snazzy screenshot of my library:

This totally sounds like a paid post, but I promise it’s not, heh. The scanner worked reasonably well, but sometimes I had to search by title, author, or UPC. I think Amazon is a bit crazy with the ISBN’s, too, probably because of the ISBN number change that happened a while back: sometimes I would scan one thing and get something completely different in my library. I especially had trouble with Orson Scott Card and Stephen King novels, which sucked because I have so much of their stuff.