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Announcing the release of Alexandria 0.6.6-beta1
* What is Alexandria?
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Alexandria is an application for managing a personal book library.
Its main recommending feature is its clean, intuitive interface.
Alexandria is able to retrieve book information and cover images from
a wide variety of online data sources. It also features extensive
import and export options, a loan interface, and smart libraries.
Alexandria is written in Ruby using ruby-gnome2.
* Where can I get it?
=====================
- A source package can be downloaded at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=205
- An ad-hoc deb file (for Debian, Ubuntu & gNewSense) can be
downloaded from there too
- SVN can be accessed here: http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/alexandria
* What's New in 0.6.6?
======================
- Fixed providers WorldCat (#27145), Proxis (#25730), Thalia (#27134),
DeaStore (#27000) and BarnesAndNoble
- Made providers turn-off-and-onable in Preferences (#26931)
- Implemented an ad-hoc MARC parser to fix some Z39.50 providers (#27471)
- All incoming data converted to UTF-8 in a consistent fashion (#26968)
Some bug fixes:
[#27470] couldn't delete books if only one Library present
[#27515] covers for books without ISBN don't show up in export
[#25021] libraries and smart libraries context menus inconsistent
Where can I find out more?
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* Website: http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/
* Screenshots/Screencast: http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/screenshots.html
* Mailing List: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/alexandria-list/
* Bugs: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=205
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