RAA - alexandria/0.6.1

alexandria / 0.6.1

Short description: A book collection manager for GNOME
Category: Application/Utility
Status: beta
Created: 2004-04-13 14:58:13 GMT
Last update: 2005-10-02 21:44:29 GMT
Owner: Laurent Sansonetti (Projects of this owner)
Homepage: http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/
Download: http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/6308/alexandria-0.6.1.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(*)
Requires: ruby-zoom/0.2.0(*)
(*): 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 the Spanish Ministry of Culture, Amadeus Buch, Internet Bookshop Italia, the US Library of Congress and the British Library ;
  • allows books to be added and updated by hand ;
  • enables searches either by EAN/ISBN/UPC, title, authors or keyword ;
  • supports the Z39.50 standard and allow you to manage your own sources ;
  • can import and export data into ONIX, Tellico and EAN/ISBN/UPC-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 ;
  • is documented in a complete manual (at the moment in English only).
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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