Bookdog...highly recommended!

I went through all of the discussions looking for the appropriate place to put this tidbit and this seems to be the right one:
If you have lots of bookmarks in Safari you should take Bookdog for a spin (recommended for 10.3.9 & above). It is well worth the time and effort and definetly worth the $$ to buy the license. (I'm not associated with the software developer in any way, shape or form....I just like to recommend software that WORKS!!)
I have over 3,000 bookmarks and I just downloaded the most recent version of Bookdog and it was able to go through all of them in a matter of minutes and let me know which were good and which were no longer useable. I then went through the list of questionable sites and was able to either update the URL or delete it completely. What a time saver!
http://www.sheepsystems.com/bookdog/
iMac PowerPC G4 700MHz   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   iPod Nano 4GB/white + iPod Video 60 GB/white / iBook

Hi Modiver,
Thanks for letting us know, but I'm sure the most of us knowing about Bookdog already.
I came from Jaguar to Panther an in the past I used the FREE version Safari-Sorter. Bookdog...maybe highly recommended, but why should I buy something that normally is integrated in a browser.
* So I sort them manually ...
Dimaxum

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    Serial Number: G85167AGRU3
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    PCI Revision ID: 0x0043
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    PCI Revision ID: 0x0001
    PCI Vendor ID: 0x106b
    Bus Number: 0x09
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    PCI Revision ID: 0x0001
    PCI Vendor ID: 0x106b
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    PCI Revision ID: 0x0004
    PCI Vendor ID: 0x1033
    Bus Number: 0x4b
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