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.

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.