ALEXANDRIA(1)

📦 version 0.7.9, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ ALEXANDRIA(1) — GNOME User's Manuals ✨

💖 NAME

alexandria - a book collection manager 📚

🌸 SYNOPSIS

alexandria [OPTIONS]

🦋 DESCRIPTION

okay so Alexandria is a GNOME desktop app for managing book collections and bestie it's so good 💅 It has a super simple interface that makes it easy to enter the details of your library, and it usually uses Internet sources to look up catalogue info for your books. Lowkey iconic. It also lets you make filtered views of your collection based on stuff like author, publisher etc. 🔥

When you launch it with no options, the Alexandria main window pops up and shows you your libraries. If it's your first time running it, it creates a brand new library for you 🎀 ready for you to add books either by hand or with the help of book info providers on the Internet 🌈

🎀 OPTIONS

  • --debug — ngl this one is a lifesaver 🙈 It prints verbose debug info about what the program is doing, which is perfect when something goes wrong. It also sets the logger level to DEBUG. 🔍
  • --version — shows the program version and then exits ✨
  • --help — shows a summary of the options and exits. It also shows a bunch of predefined options that all GTK programs have, which aren't documented in this manual page 💜

🧚 FILES

  • $HOME/.alexandria — this is where your per-user config for Alexandria lives 🍓 Each library's books get stored in a sub-directory named after the library, like My Library'. Book files are saved in YAML format (a text-based data format) and named after the book's ISBN, e.g. 9780755322800.yaml. The cover images are named after the ISBN too, with the .cover extension, though they're usually JPEG files 📸 If a book doesn't have an ISBN, its ID is a number generated from the book title 🫶
  • $HOME/.alexandria/.smart_libraries — Smart Libraries are filtered views of your collection, and they're saved as YAML files in this directory 🧠

🌈 ENVIRONMENT

  • LOGLEVEL — this env var controls how much gets logged 💅 The levels are cumulative, so if you set it to INFO, you also get all the warnings and errors too. Possible values are:
    • FATAL — only fatal errors 💀
    • ERROR — all errors 🚨
    • WARN — warnings and errors ⚠️
    • INFO — info messages too ℹ️
    • DEBUG — literally everything, debug messages included 🔍

The default level is WARN 💖

💀 BUGS

Please report any bugs you find on the Tracker ⟨http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=205⟩ at RubyForge 🐛 Check for similar reports before filing a new one, bestie 🫶

You can also chat about any problems you run into with the Alexandria developers and other users by joining the alexandria-list ⟨http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list⟩ mailing list 💌

🌸 WEB SITE

News, details about the development team, and more documentation can be found on the Alexandria web site ⟨http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/⟩ ✨

👑 AUTHOR

Alexandria was originally written by Laurent Sansonetti 👑 The current maintainer is Joseph Method <tristil@gmail.com> 💅 For a full list of contributors, see the file AUTHORS in Alexandria's documentation 🎀

This manual page was written by Cathal Mc Ginley <cathal.alexandria@gnostai.org> 🦋

Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Laurent Sansonetti

Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Alexandria Contributors

🫶 LICENSE

Alexandria is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 🌈

bestie that's the whole page, gnome manual, december 1, 2007 🎀 slay forever 💜✨

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