From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-04-14T03:41:53+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Alexandria 0.1.1

Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> Alexandria is a GNOME application to help you manage your book
> collection.

Wow, that is so cool. That saves me from having to write my own
app like that. :)  Seriously, it was on my to-do list.

> * features an HIG-compliant user interface ;

Sorry, what's HIG compliance?


If you're taking feature requests, I'd like to see various
reports available (prefer HTML).

I assume there's some way to categorize these, by hand if not
automatically?

Would also like a field to record that a book is borrowed, and
who borrowed it.

And a crazy idea I had was to record the approximate heights and
thicknesses of the books (I actually have this recorded on paper).
That way I can theoretically pack them on shelves in a logical,
semi-automated way. (I understand if you don't like this idea.)

For a pic of (most of) my books, here's a pic of David Alan Black
at the codefest at my house in 2002: http://rubyhacker.com/p8190001.jpg
:)


Cheers,
Hal