Free book software for linux

BookDB project is a Perl/Tk book database.
BookDB is a library database, which can perform searches by title, author, publisher, ISBN, and catalog number. It also allows the user to edit and delete catalog entries, which are stored in an XML format.
It is primarily intended for smaller libraries that do not need to run a complex database system.
Enhancements:
- I am taking this down for the time being. It has been pointed out that there is rather large error in V3. I am working on a new version to correct some mistakes made in V3. In the mean time, here is a copy of V2, which will be backwards compatible with the future installment.

Addresh Book is a (basic) Address Book implemented entirely in Shell Scripts. Current functionality is implemented for adding records, deleting records and searching records.

Note: This project has been largely superceeded by the ZDB project below.

BooKreader is a Linux KDE twin-panel text files viewer specialized for reading e-books.

It supports multiple bookmarks, custom fonts, encoding selection.

The main feature is the reader has two-page style, so it looks like a real book.

Tigerbooks project is a online book exchange.

Tigerbooks is an online book exchange designed for individual universities and colleges.

Students can post books for sale or browse for books to buy. Fulltext and ISBN searches are available.

There are other book exchange systems currently available. However, TigerBooks is an open source solution.

This means that it is freely available to any University or College that wishes to use it for its own students. Furthermore, any University or College can make contributions to the TigerBooks thus distributing its maintenance costs.

Maintenance costs are particularly important in academic realms as students are only at their institutions for the duration of their program. Being an open source solution means the Universities and Colleges do not have to worry about who will be maintaining TigerBooks in the years to come.


TigerBooks is a successful open source project and will see greater success in the future as it is distributed amongst Universities and Colleges. It is successful really for two reasons.

The first being that is meets the needs of students in exchanging their textbooks. The second is that it is open source and consequently is maintained by the open source community.

KBookRipper is a CD-riper based on cdparanoia focused on audio books delivered on CD. The project will rip a set of CDs with the same meta data. The output format is OGG, not MP3. The CDs assumes to be part of a audio book.

I wrote it since I was very annoyed that the meta data for a book delivered on several CDs never was the same for all CDs and frequently was missing for at least one of the CDs. The crappy meta data made it hard to rip books with K3B.

This program allows you to enter meta data (author, title, published year) that is used for all the CDs in the book. The only meta data that is changed if the CD-number and that one is increased automatically.

Each books is stored on disk kept together and files are named with the assumption to be part of a book.

For me, this little program has been most valuable since I have ripped about 150 aduio books to put them on my MP3-player. Or, rather, my OGG-player. The output of this program if ogg-files. There is no option what so ever to create MP3-files (although it is a GPLed software and lame takes about the same command options as the oggenc takes).

The applications is made with kommander. The working part is written in bash and the script depends on cdparanoia and oggenc. The command play is used to play a little blip when ac CD is done (blip not included). The script will fail if cdparanoia or oggenc is missing (do the test in the settings-page). If the command play is missing only the blip will fail.

Ive used this for a about one hundred books and I have designed the GUI myself. I guess that disqualifies me to actually have any opinions about the GUI and usability. Du feel free to send me an email and give me feedback. If you think this application is useless, please let me know why.

iBookshelf is an application for cataloging your book collection and designing bookshelves based for it. Written in C#/Mono using the Gtk# graphical toolkit. This project is specifically an experiment in computer aided design
Main features:
- ISBN entry using CueCat, standard barcode scanner, or manual entry.
- Automatic data fetch using Amazon web services
- Manual book entry for non-catalogued books
- Bookshelf design based on most efficient book order.

My Address Book is a Web-based contact list program. It stores information like addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and Web sites, and has a notes section for custom information.
Add, delete, and edit functions can be password protected using htaccess. Complete style control using CSS.
Main features:
- Add an unlimited number of contacts.
- Easy to use and read.
- Specify your own colors.
- Use your own template.

KAddressBook is a comfortable frontend to organize the addresses of your friends, business partners, etc.

KAddressBook allows you to import and export adressbook files, offers a function to search for adresses and - which is the most important feature: it is fully integrated into the K Desktop Enviroment and interacts with other KDE applications like e.g. KMail.

KAddressBook is part of the kdepim package.