jordanhatch / anthology

An easier way to keep track of your office bookshelf.

Anthology

An easier way to keep track of the books on your office bookshelf.

• Uses GitHub authentication for your organisation
• Keeps track of multiple copies of each book
• Looks up book details from Google Books and Openlibrary based on the ISBN

Getting started

bundle install
bundle exec unicorn -p 5000

If you're in the development or test environments, OmniAuth's developer strategy is available, and selected by default. This allows you to authenticate without using GitHub by providing details for a stub user. If configuration for GitHub is present, Anthology will default to using authentication with GitHub instead.

Configuration

The app is configured with a collection of environment variables:

• LIBRARY_TITLE - name of the library, displayed throughout the app
• GITHUB_CLIENT_ID
• GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET
• GITHUB_ORG - organisation username to restrict access
• REQUEST_IP - IP address to provide as the requester in calls to the Google Books API (required for Heroku)
• RAILS_SECRET_TOKEN

If you're using Airbrake or Errbit, you can set the following environment variables:

• AIRBRAKE_API_KEY
• AIRBRAKE_HOST

Licence

Anthology is released under the MIT Licence.

anthology's Issues

link to openlibrary

might I suggest associating the http://openlibrary.org/ id with a book ..

Store digital books

Possibly out of scope for this project, but I thought it was interesting enough to have an issue.

Anthology is great for keeping track of the physical office bookshelf, but these days not all books are available on paper.

It would be awesome if Anthology could store a digital book in multiple formats so that everyone who can authenticate can see what digital books are available and download them to read.

I'm not sure how this would work from a licensing perspective for all books, but that doesn't seem like a reason not to implement the feature.

When you add a book, how should the inside cover be marked?

When you add a book, it's a good idea to mark it with a copy number so that people can find it and check it out. However, the UI doesn't provide any guidance for this when you add a book currently.

CSV export?

Hi Jordan!

Just in case you're stuck for things to do, something that would be really useful is a CSV export of all the books and their statuses (on loan, who's borrowed them, ISBN, etc).

Maybe you'll get to this before I have time to? 😇