booktracker

Booktracker is an open source application for managing and tracking a personal book library.

Using metadata grabbed from Google Books, easily add books and organize them into collections. Set each book’s status, give it a rating, and track how long it took to read.

Disclaimer: I am an English Lit graduate learning to program, and Booktracker is my first major project. Booktracker is still under active development, so expect bugs and breaking changes.

Features

• Add books with metadata provided by the Google Books API.
• Add books manually without using an external metadata provider.
• Organize books into collections.
• Create customer reading/writing challenges and track your progress.
• Write private journal entries about a book.
• View book-related statistics like books read per month, etc.
• Multi-user support.
• Import book data and bookshelves from Goodreads.
• Export data to JSON or CSV.

Installation

Docker Compose (recommended)

1. Paste this docker-compose.yml file into an empty directory, replacing with the correct info where necessary

   version: "3.3"
   
   services:
       booktracker:
           image: wars2k/booktracker:latest
           restart: unless-stopped
           volumes:
               - ./data:/app/external
           ports:
               - 2341:5000 #replace 2341 with your desired port.

2. Create the data directory with the following three subdirectories:

   • db
   • log
   • export

   Before starting the container, make sure that the directory strucutre looks like this:

   booktracker/
   ├── docker-compose.yml
   └── data/
       ├── db
       ├── log
       └── export
   

3. Start the container (from the same directory as your docker-compose.yml file):

   docker compose up -d

Screenshots

Home Page

Challenge Page

Main Book Page

Settings

Users