Books

Books is a light web application to manage books and track ther state.
It’s written in PHP, does not require a database and can be easily self hosted.

Version 2.0 is now available → download the last version 🚀

Main features:

Simple & fast, intuitive & mobile first
No database (data is saved in a file)
Easy installation
Search, best rated, readlist, and random book features
Several optional metadata (publisher, publication year, page, note, review, genres, external information link, book cover)
RSS feed for last books
Export and import feature with JSON file
Settings (title, author, robots, pagination)
Custom themes supported

Developed by Nicolas Devenet. Under MIT license.
Code hosted on https://github.com/Devenet/Books.

Inspired by Shaarli.

Migration from v1 to v2

Before migrating to v2:

If you want to keep your logs, you have to rename the file /data/area-51.txt into /data/logs.txt.
Otherwise, nothing to do.

After migrating to v2:

You can delete the obsolete folder /cache.