There is this nifty app for the Macintosh called Delicious Library that allows you to enter the books, movies and music you own into its database to help you keep track of these items. In some regards, it is similar to iTunes. You can preview items by their covers (yes, books, movies and music covers), sort them, and even search for titles to see if you already own them. If you have a lot of books and music and movies like many people do today, it is hard to remember whether you have a particular item sometimes. Delicious Library makes it easy to check in only a few seconds, instead of rummaging through shelves or stacks of stuff.

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Delicious Library makes this sort of thing easy by automating the procedure. All you have to do is click to add a new media item, then enter its title or author or similar information, and Delicious Library goes right to work to pull the cover and information about every item featuring your search query. It pulls this information directly from Amazon.com. Even in its simplest use, something along the lines of what I do, to catalog my books, movies and music, Delicious Library is pretty cool.

Delicious Library is also helpful, really, for insurance purposes. To collect insurance on stolen items, you must have an inventory of those items, else you can never really know what was stolen. Delicious Library serves this purpose to help you catalog the $1000's of media and other items (even electronics!) you have accumulated over time.

Delicious Library, though, goes one better: it also allows you to publish your library to any ftp site, like this web site for example, to share your data if you like. The resulting web pages resemble the Delicious Library interface, with all the covers in your library. Truly, it is pretty slick and easy to share this information with your friends.