&app; is a simple GNOME application 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.

&app; provides the following features: 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 by ISBN, title, authors or keyword supports the Z39.50 standard and allow you to define your own online book information sources saves data using the text-based YAML format, making it easy to work with your book data can import and export data into ONIX, Tellico and ISBN-list formats can export library data in the form of 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 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 for data entry includes translations for several languages Alexandria is under active development (as of December 2007) and new features are being planned and added regularly. See the &app; web page for more information.