Alexandria Alternatives

Alexandria

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.

* retrieves and displays book information (sometimes with cover pictures) from several online libraries and bookshops.
* allows books to be added and updated by hand
* enables searches either byEAN/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-list formats
* can export XHTML web pages of your libraries, 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 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)

Previous Github repo: https://github.com/cathalmcginley/alexandria
Maintained fork: https://github.com/mvz/alexandria-book-collection-manager