Bibliophile - In Progress

Bibliophile is a JAVA desktop application and used for keeping records of any personal library. The idea behind the application is keeping a database of book records, add/delete book to/from db, generating wishlists/searching wished books for online shopping and to determine the exact number of books that you read or not.

Getting Started

Related application is a GUI application based on JAVA Swing. It also uses embedded APACHE DERBY DB.

Prerequisites

For Linux Users:

• Download "MyLibrary.jar" to /home/USER on your PC.

• You should have JRE 1.6.0 at minimum.

For Windows Users:

• Download "Bibliophile.exe" to any folder on your PC.

• You should have latest Java Runtime Environment.

Execution of Application

For Linux Users:

java -jar MyLibrary.jar

For Windows Users:

Double Click on related exe file!

Usage

Show All Library Content:

• All Books' details are seen on this screen.
• You can track total number of your books and number of read books.
• Also you can follow your total expenses.
• You can export all library as CSV file.
• You can also import your books as txt file into your library. See https://github.com/ecetiner87/MyLibrary/blob/master/test.txt for example structure.

Add New Book Into Library

• Enter Book Name, Author First Name, Author Last Name, Publisher, Publish Date(optional) in Year format, Price(optional), category and sub-category, read status and translator(optional)

Delete Existing Book

• You can delete single book with "Delete Book" function.
• You can delete ALL books with "Delete ALL" function. You should be careful when using this; no rollback for this option.

Search Book

• You can search books through your book database by author first name or bookname

Update Book

• You can update book record details.
• If you update your book record with Read=YES options; it will be automatically added to Read History Menu.

Wish List

• You can create a wishlist for your desired books.
• You can buy them online through google-books with BUY option.

Read History

• You can track your reading history through this function.
• It will updated automatically when you UPDATE a book record with Read?=YES option on Update Book menu.

Statistics

• You can visualize your Library details in Statistics menu: * Read/Not Read Books pie chart * Books by Category pie chart

Borrowed Books

• You can visualize your borrowed books: * To whom you borrow your books * How long it passed * When you borrow your books * Action: You can clear borrowed status when a book returned.

Built With

• Eclipse Photon

• Java

• Apache Derby DB

Authors

• Erkan Cetiner - ecetiner87

License

This project is publicly available. You can download it and make any changes for your own purposes.