Alexandria
Alexandria is a command-line ebook manager.
Installing
$ gem install hawx-alexandria
$ cat >> ~/.bash_rc
export ALEXANDRIA_LIBRARY='~/books' # set to location of library
Adding a book
When a book is added to alexandria it is automatically converted to each
supported format (at the moment .epub
and .mobi
). This is done with the
ebook-convert
tool provided by Calibre. You will need to install
Calibre then set the environment variable EBOOK_CONVERT
to be the path to
the ebook-convert
file.
You can the add books like,
$ alexandria add /path/to/book.epub
...
$ alexandria add /path/to/another-book.mobi
...
Listing books
You can list all books with
$ alexandria list