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Alexandria

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.

What is Alexandria?

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?

You can install alexandria as a gem by running

gem install alexandria-book-collection-manager

Alternatively, download the source from the github repository at http://www.github.com/mvz/alexandria-book-collection-manager and follow the installation instructions.

Where can I find out more?

For source code and bug reporting, see the repository on github at http://www.github.com/mvz/alexandria-book-collection-manager.

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 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.

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.

Contributors

The following people have contributed to Alexandria over the years:

Authors

• Alexander McCormmach [email protected]
• Aymeric Nys [email protected]
• Cathal Mc Ginley [email protected]
• Claudio Belotti [email protected]
• Constantine Evans [email protected]
• Dafydd Harries [email protected]
• Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena [email protected]
• Joseph Haig [email protected]
• Joseph Method [email protected]
• Kevin Schultz [email protected]
• Laurent Sansonetti [email protected]
• Marco Costantini [email protected]
• Mathieu Leduc-Hamel [email protected]
• Matijs van Zuijlen [email protected]
• Owain Evans [email protected]
• Pascal Terjan [email protected]
• Rene Samselnig [email protected]
• Robby Stephenson [email protected]
• Sun Ning [email protected]
• Takayuki Kusano [email protected]
• Timothy Malone [email protected]
• Zachary P. Landau [email protected]

Documenters

• Cathal Mc Ginley [email protected]
• Liam Davison [email protected]

Artists

• Andreas Nilsson [email protected]
• Stefanie Dijoux [email protected]

Translators

• Adrián Chaves Fernández [email protected] (gl)
• Cathal Mc Ginley [email protected] (ga)
• CHIKAMA Masaki [email protected] (ja)
• Dafydd Harries [email protected] (cy)
• Damjan Dimitrioski [email protected] (mk)
• Giacomo Margarito [email protected] (it)
• Jack Myrseh [email protected] (nb)
• Joachim Breitner [email protected] (de)
• José Ling [email protected] (zh_TW)
• Lennart Karssen [email protected] (nl)
• Lígia Moreira [email protected] (fr, pt, pt_BR)
• Martin Karlsson [email protected] (sv)
• Michael Kotsarinis [email protected] (el)
• Miguel Ángel García [email protected] (es)
• Peter Kováč [email protected] (sk)
• Petr Vanek [email protected] (cs)
• Piotr Drąg [email protected] (pl)
• Serhij Dubyk [email protected] (uk)

Former translators

• David Weinehall [email protected] (sv)
• Jiří Pejchal [email protected] (cs)
• Laurent Sansonetti [email protected] (fr)
• Lucas Rocha [email protected] (pt_BR)
• Marco Costantini [email protected] (it)
• Masao Mutoh [email protected] (ja)
• Mirko Maischberger [email protected] (it)

License

Unless otherwise noted, the following license applies to all files that are part of Alexandria:

Copyright (C) 2004 Laurent Sansonetti Copyright (C) 2005-2010,2014-2020 Alexandria Contributors

Alexandria is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See the file COPYING for details.