World, meet Delicious Library 3!

After five years of sweat and toil (and a few mojito benders), we are stoked to introduce Delicious Library 3, specifically designed for a post-hard copy world.

So what makes Delicious Library 3 more The Godfather, Part III and less Scary Movie 3?

Smart recommendations. We've always helped you know what you own, but now Delicious Library is even better at helping you discover more things you love. We integrate your collection, ratings, and wishlist to generate recommendations based on your collector profile. If your friends own any of the recommended items, Delicious Library flags them for you.

Better sharing. Pool resources by sharing your library with friends. Borrow stuff you want, loan items out–Delicious Library 3 makes it easier than ever to keep track of items.

Charts. You requested this feature, and we've finally answered. See the current value of your collection, total page count, and other fun data rendered in cool charts.

An awesome iPhone app. Delicious Scanner is finally here! Scanning is now more mobile, literally. Got an iPhone? Download our app and you, too, can carry a hand-held scanner in your pocket.

MOAR WOODS. Seriously, so many gorgeous woods. Mahogany for art books, pine for garage tools, European yew for French films–it's up to you. Customize all of your shelves.

Delicious Library 3 is now available in the Mac App Store, or download and try it for free from our (new, improved) website. Let us know what you think!

We’re looking for a new support monster!

Delicious Monster is looking for a new support person in San Francisco.

You will answer customer e-mails and do basic bookkeeping. Our online support system makes responding to customers intuitive, but there are always curveball questions, so you’ll learn a lot about software. Bookkeeping for us means entering like twelve bills a month into Quickbooks, making sure the autopay system works, facilitating our ongoing transition from Evil National Bank to First Republic, and running interference with our accountant.

If you are smart and eager, you could also do a million other things. There are only 2½ of us right now, and 80% of us are programmers, so there’s a lot of room to create your own position. Into project management? Give it a shot. Want to attempt PR? Be our guest. Marketing your thing? I don’t even know what that entails. L33T web skillz? You know the drill.

We want someone bright who knows their way around a Mac, but a ton of tech experience isn't necessary or even desirable. Personality fit is key: we have to stare at your mug all day and you have to stare at ours. A sense of humor is required.

Previous support employees have gone on to be a product manager at Apple, a facilities planner at Square, and an assistant to the board of a national health charity.

Delicious Monster is a tiny company with a huge customer base. We created the skeuomorphic bookshelf look adopted by iBooks and Newsstand. We’ve won three Apple Design Awards. We invented video barcode scanning. We presented our first product at TED2005; it was later featured in the Mac App Store launch.

We work out of a coffee shop in San Francisco's Mission District and generally have a caffeine-fueled good time. Join us. E-mail wjs (at) delicious-monster.com.

Mac App Store Sale: Organize!

Hello, readers—you are smart and lovely and, well, reading this, so you probably already dig Delicious Library. For you, Chief Monster Wil and Monster Minion Jonathon are busy at work on two new, sorta top-secret products. (Soon! ish.) Wil has also wisely invested copious amounts of time in recapping episodes of The Bachelor. (Where would American culture be without that show? We hope it never dies.)

Meanwhile, our friends over at the Mac App Store want to give everyone a break on some of their most popular productivity apps. Delicious Library is featured this week as part of the "Get Stuff Done: Organize" sale. Think of it this way: the Mac App Store is your mom who's mad about your disorganized bedroom, and we at Delicious Monster are your chill aunt who's like, "It's cool. Drink this beer, and I'll work on figuring out which delinquent friend of yours never returned that copy of Blade Runner."

So whether Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow Saturday or not, you, dear reader, can take advantage of the Get Stuff Done sale to get stuff done with Delicious Library for a mere pittance. Starting now and ending February 7, Delicious Library will be on sale for half off!. Holy cats! Is that our best price ever? No, really, we can't remember is it? Anyhow, we're sure it's close!

Tell your mama, tell your friends, tell anyone whose heart can comprehend…Oh, and here are some ways to sell them on it.

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Allow us to help you archive your life:

Had stuff stolen? The insurance company wants an exact list. Delicious Library creates a complete inventory of your possessions, including replacement costs.

Share the love, and then get it back. Treat your collection of media and gadgets like a library. Drag an item onto one of your Contacts, and Delicious Library will remind you when it’s due.

Know what you own. Delicious Library knows if you have something lying around that happens to be worth serious bucks. Put used items up for sale in three clicks.

Need more convincing? Behold, some of our favorite Delicious Library features:

Build your library quickly: Hold a book or DVD up to your Mac webcam to scan; the item appears on your digital shelf seconds later. Delicious Library reads the title aloud, so you can text and drive simultaneously.

Merge physical and electronic collections: View hard copies side by side with iTunes albums, TV shows, movies, and e-books.

Publish to the web: Brag -ahem- share with your friends that vinyl collection, shelf of Hemingway first editions, or undoubtedly impressive iTunes library.

Go international: Delicious Library automatically converts the world’s most popular currencies. Sort a list of books sold in £ and ¥ and US$ and still get an accurate run-down of items by price.

Create bibliographies: Export most bibliographic styles, including AMA, APA, CBE, Chicago, MLA, or, for the real scholars, OMGWTFBBQ.

Did we mention that Delicious Library holds up to 15,000 items? Catalog everything!

Seriously, catalog everything: books, movies, camera equipment, bikes, music, software, collectibles, board games, power tools, electronics, video games…even clothes and jewelry. Organize your collections, archive your life--do it all with us for the price of a few lattes.

Physical Inventory Made (Deliciously) Simple

Remember back in April when we asked you (somewhat ungrammatically), “How do YOU Delicious?” No? Well, some people do, so nyah. Anyhow, over the past couple months, we’ve heard from a bunch of you guys and we’re really excited to share some of your stories!

First up is Rick, one of our long-time users:

Rick was determined to make moving out of his old house a little less daunting. He spent some time looking for the most efficient way to keep track of the physical location of his book collection in his new house – with a mountain of boxes stacking up in his attic, the last thing he wanted to do was take out a piece of paper and start checking items off of a list. With Delicious Library 2, making a physical inventory was painless. You can follow in his footsteps:

Cozy up with your scanner and grab a handful of items you want to differentiate (e.g., “from the attic”) – start by creating a new shelf for these items by clicking on the (+) button in the bottom left hand corner of the application window. Once your new shelf has been named, click on it under the ‘Shelves’ section in the sidebar and start scanning in all your desired items. 

After you’ve finished adding in everything, take a look at your entire library in List view (‘View ▶ Show As List’ from the main menu) and click on the tiny hammer and wrench icon on the right side of the list’s header (or control-click anywhere on the header). Add ‘Shelves’ as a column, then sort by ‘Shelves’ by clicking on its header (notice the little up/down arrow that’s added to the column’s header when you’re sorting by it). Now, all the items you’ve scanned in will be labeled with your shelf’s name and sorted in your newly added column. This will make it easier to pinpoint the location of your physical items as you add them into your each of your digital shelves.

Not too bad huh? Let us know at support@delicious-monster.com if you decide to give it a whirl!

After a Two Week Hiatus, We're Back (and With a New Monster Onboard)!

You may have been wondering why it's taken a little longer than usual to get in contact with us over the past couple weeks. We apologize for the delay; as you might have seen in our last blog post, Lia gave her final goodbye to Delicious Monster after she was offered her dream job working in finance. Although we're super bummed to see her go, we couldn't be more proud of her accomplishments! She left us with some pretty large shoes to fill, but thankfully I've got big feet and am totally up for the challenge.

My name is Nadia and I will be handling all of your future support-related issues — i.e. crash reports, lost license inquires, general troubleshooting, and how-to questions — at <support@delicious-monster.com>. I was a technician at The Apple Store before, so I have a fair amount of experience working with Mac OS X and iOS platforms, so you're in good hands (I promise).

During my first week here at Delicious Monster, I've gone through all of the e-mails that piled up in Lia's absence, so you should have heard back from me if you were waiting for a response! If not, please poke me again. I'm really looking forward to hearing from you on the forum and through your e-mails, so please don't be a stranger! I'm just a click and a send away.

So Long, Delicious Monster

Well, it's about time I tell you all the news. Today is my last day answering your e-mails and writing these blog posts. Today is my last day at Delicious Monster.

In the last ten months, I've done so much more than customer support. I've run the forum and of course this blog. I've also dabbled in sales and marketing. If any of you have e-mailed us with a question, crash, bug report, or comment, I'm usually the one who reads and responds.

I've been touched by the huge amount of thank-you e-mails, praise on the forum that's specifically mentioned how helpful I was, and general warmth of the whole Delicious Monster family. Once, an application on my computer wasn't opening so I posted on our company Twitter account asking for help. Within minutes, I had a handful of responses from our users; everyone was so instantly helpful and I knew we had a great community.

I know you're all bummed to see me leaving, but never fear, dear users! Our new support gal, Nadia, is more than capable of handling all of your queries and problems. She'll be taking over in a week or so, so we all thank you in advance for your patience and understanding in the interim.

Anyhow, I've never been very good with goodbyes, so I'll just say take care and I hope you all continue to use and love Delicious Library.

It's 12 o'clock – Do YOU Know Where Your Books Are?

Delicious Library is a great product for people like me, who are borderline-OCD about the way we keep our collections organized. Our software makes it so easy for you to see what you have in your personal library – but what if you want to find the physical item itself? Say you're showing off your library to a friend and he asks to borrow a particular book he sees on the shelf on your screen – how do you find that book in your home? Or maybe you're moving and need to make sure that you know exactly where certain items are. Guess what? We have an easy way to do that.

To use Delicious Library to pack boxes, first create a new shelf and name it after your box (or room in your house or particular shelf, etc.) Next, select the shelf from the list in the left-hand column and drag and drop items onto the shelf as you pack (or set up your room, load up the shelf, etc.)

Once the box is full or you have all the items you want on the shelf, click on one item on the shelf and press ‘Command-A’ to select everything on that shelf. Click on the edit tool (pencil) and look for the 'Location in Building' field in the details panel. Select it and type in the shelf (box) name. Finally, press 'Enter' to save changes and end editing. If you want, you can delete the shelf you just created after this step.

Now if you want to see where a particular item is located (which box it's in, what room it's in, what shelf it's on, etc.) all you have to do is look at the details panel and your answer will be right in the 'Location in Building' field! You can also search by the location name to see which items are in which box/room/shelf. (Of course, you can also just keep the shelf in Delicious Library and use that to track your locations too, but we know that y'all love our cool features as much as we love sharing them!)