I'm addicted to books I already own more than 500 and my wish list still is long. Everybody who has the same weakness knows, that after a while, you're quite likely to lose count of how many books you have, and even more important, of what books you have! Not only once I was close to buying a book that's already waiting in my bookshelf to be read. As that happened again and again I decided that I had to do something about it and that's how I came across "MediaMan".

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What is MediaMan?
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MediaMan is a software product that helps you organizing your own media. With this program you can create a media catalogue with groups for different types of media (books, CD's, DVDs, software) and add every single item you own. Sounds like a lot of work? Seriously, it isn't. The programmers added a nice feature: You can import items from amazon (Great Britain, United States, Germany, Japan, Canada and France). The only thing you have to do is to put in is the ISBN, the barcode number or the title the rest is automatically done by the software for you.

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Where do I get MediaMan and what are the costs?
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You can download MediaMan on the internet; the company's website is http://www.imediaman.com/. The software is an evaluation free trial that can be used for 30 days; after that a full license can be purchased from the website for USD $39.95.
Quite a bit of money but there are good news. If you don't insist on using the latest version (which is v 2.6.5) you can get MediaMan for free in the version 2.2.1. The developers don't mention that on their website, but all over the internet you find websites where you can download it from completely legally of course. One of them is http://www.freeware-guide.com - or just google and you'll find many more. Some of you might be bewildered about that now, but there's an easy explanation: In the early days MediaMan was Freeware; it only went commercial with the version 2.3.

As I can't see the point of spending so much money on a product I can get for free, I will refer to the freeware version in my review. A change log is available on the company's website though, for those who are considering to buy the software.

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Installation
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The software can be run under Windows 98/ME/2000/XP and is very easy to install. Once you've downloaded the installation file (which is quickly done; the file only has a size of 5.12MB) you can start the installation with a double click. After having accepted the licence agreement

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