It would be wonderful to see a plugin or something that would allow users to create entries (upload files, write metadata, etc). I've been looking for a way to do this, but have not found anything for Joomla that does everything else quite as well as Alexandria Book Library. Letting users add their own books to the catalogue would make the program perfect.
Hi bondjimbond and thanks for your feedback!
Federica is working hard to implement various features. Adding books on the frontend seems the most requested feature :)
You (and all the world) can see here which are the features that Federica is working to do for the Joomla 1.6 (1.7, 1.8 and so on :) ) component:
List of ToDO for Alexandria Book Library (http://tracker.neomediatech.it/projects/alexandriabooklibrary/issues/todo)
Continue to follow us and sign your abook installation on our site (http://www.alexandriabooklibrary.org/en/abook-in-the-world.html)!
Thanks! I've one more suggestion: when inputting a book, make "author" a text box rather than selection from a menu, and register the author to the database directly from there. It would make adding books a lot easier.