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I would like to ask if there is any good program for ubuntu 12.04 to organize a library of books.I want to mention that I also have books written in my native language (Greek) and I have books written in other languages like English,French, etc too .So basically I need an application which can fetch information from databases for Greek books.

For example - Adding a Greek (ISBN) book database source and when I type the ISBN of the book in the program ,it should find the book from that databases.

Is this possible? I already tried Tellico and GCstar but they were unable to find books with Greek ISBN .I tried to add a Greek book source but it wasn't successful.

Jorge Castro
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  • Have you tried **Calibre** , Install it from Ubuntu Software Centre. – atenz Jun 23 '12 at 09:12
  • Can you add real books or only e-books?If it can,does it have the ability to add where the book is placed in the library?And how do you add sources where it can fetch info for Greek books? – und3rd06012 Jun 23 '12 at 09:32
  • Only ebooks can be added, also supports fetching info from custom sources. For further info view [this](http://calibre-ebook.com/demo). – atenz Jun 23 '12 at 09:38
  • In which point exactly does it say that you can add custom sources? – und3rd06012 Jun 23 '12 at 09:56
  • Adding sources here means getting rss or news feeds from books site , see [faq](http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#content-from-the-web). But if your source is a network library, or book sites , both can be done in calibre. – atenz Jun 23 '12 at 10:33
  • "But if your source is a network library, or book sites , both can be done in calibre."<-------This is what I am asking for.How am I going to do that. – und3rd06012 Jun 23 '12 at 11:07
  • Just enlarge the right border on Calibre window to show all the option, there you will find preferences , [connect/share](http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/gui.html#id36) option. also there are lot of plugins to install as per usage and found a plugin for [greek metadata](http://webtropic.cc/2012/01/19/a-calibre-plugin-for-greek-book-metadata/). – atenz Jun 23 '12 at 11:34
  • Okay I found it,but I didn't work so far with any greek book that I have tried.Anyway,thanks a lot for your answers folks. – und3rd06012 Jun 23 '12 at 12:05
  • If one or more of these comments really did answer the question, they should now be *posted as answers* so people will see this question is answered and so el10780 can accept one of them. – Eliah Kagan Jun 23 '12 at 23:26

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I successfully added this Greek z39.50 source to Tellico, and executed some searches. I don't know whether the coverage is enough for the books you have, but you might want to give it a shot.

http://irspy.indexdata.com/full.html?id=Z39.50%3A193.108.161.35%3A210%2FADVANCE

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ ΑΝΟΙΚΤΟ ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ
Host: 193.108.161.35
Port: 210
DB: ADVANCE
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