Alexandria project is a GNOME application to help you manage your book collection.

It is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License and provided without any warranties of any kind.

Here are some key features of "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 and Amadeus Buch ;
· allows books to be added and updated by hand ;
· enables searches either by EAN/ISBN, title, authors or keyword ;
· saves data using the YAML format ;
· 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 ;
· 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 barcode readers ;
· includes translations for several languages.

Requirements:

· Ruby
· Ruby/Amazon
· Ruby-GetText
· Ruby/Libglade2
· Ruby/Gnome2
· Ruby/GdkPixbuf2 and Ruby/GConf2.

What's New in This Release:

· Alexandria 0.6.3 is a maintenance release of this program, continuing the new development effort begun last year. It brings greater overall stability and a more responsive user-interface, as well as fixing many bugs.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· This release fixes and improves several book providers, as well as fixing or working around several user-interface bugs from 0.6.3.
· The program is now more stable and the GUI is more responsive, displaying feedback when adding books by ISBN and showing which book provider is currently being searched.
· There are also a handful of new translations.