I wrote some months ago to the guys behind Delicious Library 2, the cataloging application that has now finally been released, asking if they where to release a client application to be used on the iPhone. They answered that they had thought about it… and they did not gave me other details.

Now I would like to write down here how I would like that client app to be made:

• Barcode scanning with the iPhone camera
  2 modes: direct sending to Delicious Library (interactive mode) for the immediate scanning of the barcode or storage mode, you save on the iPhone all the barcodes you want to scan and send them to Delicious Library when you have finished… that could be good for scanning all the books you have in your garage…
• Wi-fi communication between client app and Delicious Library with bonjour discovery of one another
• you should be able to take photos of the cover of your book so you can use them if the barcode scanning does not match (or your books are too old and without barcodes on their cover)
• the app should let you browse your library on the iphone, or via wi-fi or having a low-res copy of the entire library stored on the iPhone itself, I know you already have the possibility to export your library to HTML pages but I think browsing in an application could be better