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Alexandria

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

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  • Free
  • Open Source

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  • Linux
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  1.  Works Offline
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  Catalog
  4.  Book Manager
  5.  Collections

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  • Developed by

    Alexandria

  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.

  • Written in

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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News & Books, Video & Movies

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  •  30 Stars
  •  16 Forks
  •  20 Open Issues
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What is Alexandria?

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)

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

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