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Alexandria |
| version 0.6.4.1 |
| About Alexandria |
Alexandria is a GNOME application to help you manage your book collection.
Alexandria:
* retrieves and displays book information (sometimes with cover pictures) from several online libraries, such as Amazon, Proxis, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, the US Library of Congress and the British Library ;
* allows books to be added and updated by hand ;
* enables searches either by EAN/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/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 ;
* 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 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).
Requirements
This application requires GTK+ version 2.10.x.
Other dependencies include:
Ruby, Hpricot, Ruby/ZOOM, Ruby-GetText, Ruby/Libglade2, Ruby/Gnome2, Ruby/GdkPixbuf2 and Ruby/GConf2.
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| Latest Version: 0.6.4.1 |
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The 0.6.4.1 release fixes and improves several book providers, as well as fixing or working around several user-interface bugs from the previous version. 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 new translations for Greek, Macedonian, Norwegian and Slovakian.
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