RAA - alexandria/0.5.0

alexandria / 0.5.0

Short description: A book collection manager for GNOME
Category: Application/Utility
Status: beta
Created: 2004-04-13 14:58:13 GMT
Last update: 2005-03-13 13:44:53 GMT
Owner: Laurent Sansonetti (Projects of this owner)
Homepage: http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/
Download: http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/3445/alexandria-0.5.0.tar.gz
License: GPL
Dependency:
Requires: ruby/1.8.1(*)
Requires: ruby-gnome2/0.12.0(*)
Requires: ruby-amazon/0.9.0(*)
Requires: ruby-gettext/0.5.4(*)
(*): newer version exists
Description:

Alexandria is a GNOME application to help manage a book collection. Check out our homepage for screenshots.

Alexandria:

  • retrieves and displays book information (including cover pictures) from several online libraries, such as Amazon, Proxis, Barnes and Noble and the Spanish Ministry of Culture ;
  • allows books to be added and updated by hand ;
  • enables searches either by EAN/ISBN, title, authors or keyword ;
  • can import and export data into ONIX, Tellico and EAN/ISBN-list formats ;
  • generates from your libraries XHTML web pages themable with CSS ;
  • allows marking your books as loaned, each with the loan-date and the name of the person who has borrowed them ;
  • saves data using the YAML format ;
  • features an 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 (R) barcode readers ;
  • includes translations for several languages.
Versions: [0.6.1 (2005-10-02)] [0.6.0 (2005-08-24)] [0.5.1 (2005-03-27)] [0.5.0 (2005-03-13)] [0.4.0 (2004-11-05)] [0.3.1 (2004-07-10)] [0.3.0 (2004-07-03)] [0.2.0 (2004-06-13)] [0.1.2 (2004-04-16)] [0.1.1 (2004-04-13)]

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