Libellus Personal Library
From AntMason
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Overview
The Libellus Personal Library allows you to easily keep up with a personal inventory of your books, and quickly add books to your library. You can quick and easily add books by just typing in your ISBN, and let the program take care of the rest.
It is open-source, licensed under GPL(as of version 1.2), and you are free to download the source code, modify, and redistribute it as you like. As a limitation of the GPL, this is not allowed to be part of a commercial project unless it is offered free of charge.
Features (As of 1.2)
- Enter an ISBN and have all available information on that book automatically entered into your library, including but not limited to:
- Dewey decimal, Normalized Dewey decimal, Library of Congress Number, Subject Information, Authors, Editors, Page Numbers, Size, Weight, and Summary.
- Keep up with a wish list, which can also be added to via ISBN
- Loan out books to people and Check them in
- Easily search your collection or sort using various attributes.
- Add books in a "batch" mode that allows you to add several books at a time by typing their ISBNs.
- Keep a separate library for different people
- Backup and Import your libraries
- View / Print your library
- View / Print your wish list
- View / Print your loaned out books
- View / Print the loan history of a book
- Sort, resize, and rearrange columns of any printable list
- View / Print details on an individual book
- Edit your entries
- Lookup avg used/new price per book.
Forums / Email A Bug,Feature Request, or Problem
- You can ask a question, report a software bug by emailing me at anthony.mason1@gmail.com:
- I apologize for those who previously posted to my forums, I shut them down to the amount of spam bots that had taken it over.
Requirements
- You must have the .NET Framework installed to use this application. If you do not have it, you will be prompted to download it when you install.
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Upgrading
- Please note that if you have an older version than the first one listed below, please take the following steps:
- Open your current Libellus, go to Tools -> Backup
- Pick your library that you wish to back up, select a destination folder and filename that you will remember, and click OK.
- Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Add Remove Programs (or Programs and Features if you're on Vista)
- Find the listing for Libellus, and click Remove
- Download and install the newest software from below.
- Open the new version, and go to Tools -> Import
- Navigate to the folder and file you saved earlier, and select it, to bring your older library up to the current version.
Stable
- Libellus 1.2.2
- Libellus 1.01
- Libellus 1.00
Latest (Updated Nightly)
Documentation
- The following is auto-generated documentation for the source code generated by Doxygen
Change Log
- First release: 1.00 on 3/29
- Fixes for 1.01
- Changed the parsing of dates to hopefully fix error dealing with non-US standard formats.
- Added Windows Cascading and Vertical / Horizontal tiling.
- Added Window list to Window menu
- Fixed problem with errors not getting caught, all errors should now give full description and the option to email the error to me.
- Fixed a bug related to book grid resizing.
- Disabled the maximize button on several windows that had no need for it, since their layout doesn't change based on size.
- Fixes for 1.2.1
- Fixed import bug from version 1.1 to 1.2
- Fixed refresh bug on the database list
- Fixes for 1.2.2
- Made a couple errors messages more user friendly.
- Made it more obvious when an internet connection was not available.
Libellus 1.2.2 was last updated on : --Ant 10:52, 19 January 2008 (CST)
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