After working with Alexandria I decided that Ruby was not a good language to write such an application. I also wanted to add some features that Ruby is not suited for such as P2P. Also, Alexandria is Gnome-only and I really didn't like that as most of our users are elsewhere, ie Windows and OSX, so I decided against GTK+.

Enter Perseus. Perseus is completely new application to help you manage your book collection. It is similar to Alexandria in that it borrows quite a few things from Alexandria's design. I also studied Delicious Library and decided to implement a real-looking bookshelf. I also wanted a viewer, so I introduced tabs into the interface. The application is quickly emerging and I do like what I see so far. It is written in Python and QT Screenshot included on the right!