2 posts tagged “collectorz”

A few weeks ago I blogged that I was coveting Collectorz.com's special bundle which I went ahead and bought after thinking about it for a day or two.

Last week the scanner came in, so I after an initial problem with some movies not loading into the scanner properly, within a couple of hours I'd scanned about 320 movies (and manually entered about twenty movies that had the bar code covered by stickers) and created this site.  Pretty slick, huh?

I've got about thirty or forty DVDs at Ben's house that I need to pick up and scan and I'm missing about another dozen movies or so (Arsenic and Old Lace, The Day After Tomorrow, Shrek, The Evil Dead 2, etc.) which is driving me nuts, but except for any new movies I purchase, you can see my full movie collection, here, which is currently 341 movies.

I needed some help to figure out how to edit their scripts so that my own Amazon Associates ID was used, but now when you click through to one of the detail pages (like this one), any thing purchased through there will generate me a referral fee.  Feel free to make your Amazon purchases through there.  ;-)

I also scanned one book shelf of my books and ended up with this collection of 144 books.  It's mostly the ones that I've purchased over the last six months or so and still need to read, so this is far from complete.  If I had to guess, I'd say that I probably have around 500 or 600 paperbacks.

I've also got the software for CDs, but I really wanted to get the movies and my recently purchased books scanned, so that's a project for another day.  I've got this page - Kymberlie's Collections - set up as an index for these sites, so I'm sure once I start scanning CDs, they'll end up there as well.

So, I'd definitely have to say that the scanner and the software was well worth the $200 I spent.  The only thing I would really like to see different is some better documentation for their templates since right now I'm having a hard time bending them to my will.

I have a ton of stuff, but it's very particular stuff, mostly limited to books, CDs, and movies.  And I have a ton of all three.

For years I've been thinking in the back of my head that I need to get a database started of - at the very least - all of my movies so that when I'm in a store I know if I've already got such and such on DVD.  I started this all by hand (!) a million years ago, but I haven't updated in in like four years.  You can see this partial list here.

I was thinking that I would use my All Consuming profile to do this, but I'm weirdly anal about things and since I've actually not seen several of the movies I own, I hate to list them there.  Plus, I've recently started a Natuba page (Natuba is a service that lets you add all of your feeds to one central location.  Mine's here and currently lists my posts on Vox, the images I upload to my Flickr account, the books I'm reading on All Consuming, all of my Twitters, and my Netflix Ship/Receive feed, though they don't have dates in their feeds, so the items are being posted in 1969 and not being listed as they should.  I reported it to Netflix and a developer said he'd look into it) and didn't want to flood my feed with 400 or so DVDs.

I did a search last night and found Collectorz which has software specifically so you can create a database of things like books, movies, and music.  The best part is that they have a barcode scanner so you don't manually have to type anything in, just scan the barcodes on the products.

Right now, they have a special Labor Day package where you can the software for books, movies, and music plus the scanner, tech support, and CD backups for $209.95.

I'm pretty sure that not having to scan all my movies or my books alone would be worth it, but I was wondering if anyone has tried this before.  Was it worth the money?  Am I being a sucker to spend this much money on something like this?

Update: I gave in and ordered the Labor Day package.  I've never been good at self-restraint.