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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, 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 ;
* 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 either filtered 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).
Mandatory requirements