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= Alexandria
Version: 0.6.6-beta1
Release Date: 2008-08-15
Home Page: http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/
Alexandria is a GNOME application for managing collections of books.
Alexandria is written in Ruby, and is free software, distributed under
the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See
the file COPYING for more information.
== Features
Alexandria is a simple program designed to allow individuals to keep a
catalogue of their book collection. In addition, it enables users to
keep track of books which are on loan.
* retrieves and displays book information (sometimes with cover
pictures) from several online libraries and bookshops, such as
o Amazon
o Proxis
o DeaStore
o AdLibris
o Spanish Ministry of Culture
o Livraria Siciliano
o WorldCat
o US Library of Congress
o British Library
* allows books to be added and updated by hand
* enables searches either by ISBN, title, author or keyword
* supports the Z39.50 standard and allow you to manage your own
sources (e.g. university libraries)
* saves data using the plain-text YAML format
* can import and export data into ONIX, Tellico, ISBN-list
and GoodReads CSV formats
* can export XHTML web pages of your libraries, 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 and standard "keyboard wedge" barcode readers
* includes translations for several languages
* is documented in a complete manual (at the moment only in
English and Japanese)
Alexandria is not without problems. See doc/BUGS for a summary of issues.
== 0.6.6-beta1 Release
For full release notes, see the file NEWS.
== Installation
There are full instructions for installing Alexandria from source in the
file INSTALL, including information about all the dependencies.
If you are installing on a Debian-based system, things should be
easier as the dependencies can be handled automatically.
To run the program, just type
alexandria
or, to get verbose debugging information,
alexandria --debug
If you are running GNOME, Alexandria should appear under the
'Applications > Office' menu.
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