var fDesc=new Array(); fDesc[0] = "Alexandria is a GNOME application to help you manage your book collection. Alexandria is a simple program designed to allow individuals to keep a catalogue of their book collection. In addition, it enables users to keep track of books which are on loan.

Main features:
-retrieves and displays book information (sometimes with cover pictures) from several online libraries and bookshops, such as
-Amazon (searches .co.uk, .fr, .de, .jp and .ca websites, as well as amazon.com)
-Proxis
-AdLibris
-Livraria Siciliano
-DeaStore
-Spanish Ministry of Culture
-US Library of Congress
-British Library
-WorldCat
-allows books to be added and updated by hand
-enables searches either byEAN/ISBN, title, authors or keyword
-supports the Z39.50 standard and allow you to manage your own sources
-saves data using the YAML format
-can import and export data into ONIX, Tellico and EAN/ISBN-list formats
-can export XHTML web pages of your libraries, themable with CSS
-allows marking your books as loaned, each with the loan-date and the name of the person who has borrowed them
-features a HIG-compliant user interface
-shows books in different views (standard list or icons list), that can be filtered and/or sorted
-handles book rating and notes
-supports CueCat and standard "keyboard wedge" barcode readers
-includes translations for several languages
-is documented in a complete manual (at the moment only in English and Japanese)"; function tShowHide(id, show) { var s = document.getElementById("desc"); if ((s.innerHTML.length<=212 || show==1) && show!=2) { s.innerHTML = fDesc[id]; if (document.getElementById('m1')) document.getElementById('m1').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('m2')) document.getElementById('m2').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('more_txt')) document.getElementById('more_txt').style.display='inline'; } else { s.innerHTML = ''; } }