Features
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.
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retrieves and displays book information (sometimes with cover
pictures) from several online libraries and bookshops, such as
- Amazon (searches .co.uk, .fr, .de, .jp and .ca websites, as well as amazon.com)
- Proxis
- Barnes and Noble
- Spanish Ministry of Culture
- Thalia
- Internet Bookshop Italia
- Renaud-Bray
- US Library of Congress
- British Library
- allows books to be added and updated by hand
- enables searches either byEAN/ISBN/UPC, 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 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 barcode readers
- includes translations for several languages
- is documented in a complete manual (at the moment only in English and French)