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I would like to ask if there is any good program for ubuntu 12.04 to organize a library of books.I want to mention that I also have books written in my native language (Greek) and I have books written in other languages like English,French, etc too .So basically I need an application which can fetch information from databases for Greek books.

For example - Adding a Greek (ISBN) book database source and when I type the ISBN of the book in the program ,it should find the book from that databases.

Is this possible? I already tried Tellico and GCstar but they were unable to find books with Greek ISBN .I tried to add a Greek book source but it wasn't successful.

Jorge Castro
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und3rd06012
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  • Have you tried Calibre , Install it from Ubuntu Software Centre. – atenz Jun 23 '12 at 09:12
  • Can you add real books or only e-books?If it can,does it have the ability to add where the book is placed in the library?And how do you add sources where it can fetch info for Greek books? – und3rd06012 Jun 23 '12 at 09:32
  • Only ebooks can be added, also supports fetching info from custom sources. For further info view this. – atenz Jun 23 '12 at 09:38
  • In which point exactly does it say that you can add custom sources? – und3rd06012 Jun 23 '12 at 09:56
  • Adding sources here means getting rss or news feeds from books site , see faq. But if your source is a network library, or book sites , both can be done in calibre. – atenz Jun 23 '12 at 10:33
  • "But if your source is a network library, or book sites , both can be done in calibre."<-------This is what I am asking for.How am I going to do that. – und3rd06012 Jun 23 '12 at 11:07
  • Just enlarge the right border on Calibre window to show all the option, there you will find preferences , connect/share option. also there are lot of plugins to install as per usage and found a plugin for greek metadata. – atenz Jun 23 '12 at 11:34
  • Okay I found it,but I didn't work so far with any greek book that I have tried.Anyway,thanks a lot for your answers folks. – und3rd06012 Jun 23 '12 at 12:05
  • If one or more of these comments really did answer the question, they should now be posted as answers so people will see this question is answered and so el10780 can accept one of them. – Eliah Kagan Jun 23 '12 at 23:26

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I successfully added this Greek z39.50 source to Tellico, and executed some searches. I don't know whether the coverage is enough for the books you have, but you might want to give it a shot.

http://irspy.indexdata.com/full.html?id=Z39.50%3A193.108.161.35%3A210%2FADVANCE

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ ΑΝΟΙΚΤΟ ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ
Host: 193.108.161.35
Port: 210
DB: ADVANCE
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