About
Alexandria is a GNOME application that makes it easy to manage your book collection. It is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License and provided without any warranties of any kind
Features
- retrieves and displays book information (including cover pictures) from several online libraries, such as Amazon, Proxis, Barnes and Noble, the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Amadeus Buch ;
- allows books to be added and updated by hand ;
- enables searches either by EAN/ISBN, title, authors or keyword ;
- saves data using the YAML format ;
- can import and export data into ONIX, Tellico and EAN/ISBN-list formats ;
- generates from your libraries XHTML web pages themable with CSS ;
- allows marking your books as loaned, each with the loan-date and the name of the person who has borrowed them ;
- features a HIG-compliant user interface ;
- shows books in different views (standard list or icons list), that can be filtered and/or sorted;
- handles book rating and notes ;
- supports CueCat (C) barcode readers ;
- includes translations for several languages.
Planned features are in a TODO list.
If you want to support the development you can make a donation (whatever you want). This will help the author buy barcode readers. Thanks to the past generous donors!
Screenshots
View as icons, sidepane displayed
View as list
Adding a book
Editing properties of a book
Loaning parameters
Exporting a library as a Web page (result here)
Editing providers preferences
Download
The latest release is 0.5.1. Grab it while it is still hot!
You can always get all the releases from the download page. Please read the README carefully, especially the requirements section. The NEWS file contains a brief overview of user-visible changes for each release.
Official Debian packages are available in the unstable (Sid) distribution. Installing should be as simple as apt-get install alexandria.
Official Mandrake packages are available in the cooker distribution. Just make sure you configured a contrib source, then you can simply install using urpmi alexandria.
Alexandria is also part of the official Gentoo portage tree. Install using the usual emerge alexandria command.
FreeBSD ships a port in the deskutils/alexandria directory. Compile as usual!
Support
Please use the tracker to report bugs, send patches or request features.
Finally, if you need real-time support, you can still try to talk to a developer in #ruby-gnome2.