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Alexandria

Alexandria is an application for managing a personal book library. Its main recommending feature is its clean, intuitive interface. Created by Alexandria

Free Open Source
Linux
Discontinued

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.
* allows books to be added and updated by hand
* enables searches either byEAN/ISBN, title, authors or keyword
* supports the Z39.50 standard and allow you to manage your own sources
* saves data using the YAML format
* can import and export data into ONIX, Tellico and EAN/ISBN-list 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)... More Info »

Previous Github repo: https://github.com/cathalmcginley/alexandria
Maintained fork: https://github.com/mvz/alexandria-book-collection-manager

Links to official Alexandria sites

Official Website GitHub

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Catalog Book manager Add a feature

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Discontinued collection

Alexandria was added by SubZero in Apr 2010 and the latest update was made in May 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Dec 2016. It's possible to update the information on Alexandria or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Alexandria is discontinued

Original RubyForge website now inaccessible. Project hasn't been updated on GitHub since 2014. See https://github.com/cathalmcginley/alexandria

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