Libro

📚 Libro: A simple command-line tool to track your reading history, with your data stored locally in a SQLite database.

Usage

Add new book: libro add

Show books read by year: libro show --year 2024

Show book details by id: libro show 123

Show books read by year: libro report

Show books read by author: libro report --author

Examples

Books Read in Year

                                              Books Read in 2025
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ id         ┃ Title                                           ┃ Author               ┃ Rating ┃ Date Read    ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Fiction    │                                                 │                      │        │              │
│ 1          │ Cujo                                            │ Stephen King         │ 3      │ Jan 05, 2025 │
│ 585        │ The Midnight Library                            │ Matt Haig            │ 5      │ Jan 13, 2025 │
│ 587        │ The Maid                                        │ Nita Prose           │ 4      │ Jan 20, 2025 │
│ 589        │ Into the Water                                  │ Paula Hawkins        │ 2      │ Feb 02, 2025 │
│ 591        │ My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry │ Fredrik Backman      │ 3      │ Feb 15, 2025 │
│ 584        │ Salem's Lot                                     │ Stephen King         │ 3      │ Mar 12, 2025 │
│ 595        │ The Thursday Murder Club                        │ Richard Osman        │ 3.5    │ Mar 20, 2025 │
│ 596        │ Remarkably Bright Creatures                     │ Shelby Van Pelt      │ 5      │ Mar 27, 2025 │
│ 598        │ Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki                        │ Haruki Murakami      │ 3      │ Apr 09, 2025 │
│ 599        │ Ten                                             │ Gretchen McNeil      │ 3      │ Apr 16, 2025 │
│            │                                                 │                      │        │              │
│ Nonfiction │                                                 │                      │        │              │
│ 586        │ The Art Thief                                   │ Michael Finkel       │ 4      │ Jan 14, 2025 │
│ 588        │ All the Pieces Matter                           │ Jonathan Abrams      │ 3      │ Jan 27, 2025 │
│ 590        │ Supercommunicators                              │ Charles Duhigg       │ 4      │ Feb 04, 2025 │
│ 592        │ HBR Guide to Generative AI for Managers         │ Elisa Farri          │ 4      │ Feb 16, 2025 │
│ 593        │ Leonardo da Vinci                               │ Walter Isaacson      │ 3      │ Mar 02, 2025 │
│ 594        │ The Leap to Leader                              │ Adam Bryant          │ 3      │ Mar 08, 2025 │
│ 597        │ Team of Rivals                                  │ Doris Kearns Goodwin │ 3      │ Apr 06, 2025 │
└────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────┴────────┴──────────────┘

Books by Year

❯ libro report

                         Books Read by Year

  Year   Count   Bar
 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  2013   3       ▄▄▄▄
  2014   4       ▄▄▄▄▄▄
  2015   11      ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
  2016   30      ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
  2017   21      ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
  2018   27      ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
  2019   29      ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
  2020   27      ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
  2021   28      ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
  2022   27      ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
  2023   32      ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
  2024   30      ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
  2025   17      ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄

Author Report

❯ libro report --author

         Most Read Authors

  Author                Books Read
 ──────────────────────────────────
  Stephen King          15
  George R.R. Martin    5
  Timothy Zahn          4
  Grady Hendrix         4
  Andy Weir             4
  William Zinsser       3
  Roald Dahl            3
  Riley Sager           3
  Philip K. Dick        3
  Neil Gaiman           3
  Natalie D. Richards   3
  Lucy Foley            3
  Cory Doctorow         3

Install

Libro is packaged as libro-book on PyPI.

pip install libro-book

You can also clone this repository and install it locally:

git clone https://github.com/mkaz/libro.git
cd libro
pip install -e .

Setup

On first run, libro will create a libro.db database file based on database location. It will prompt for confirmation to proceed which also shows the location where the file will be created.

Database locations:

The following order is used to determine the database location:

Using the --db flag on command-line.
libro.db in current directory
Environment variable LIBRO_DB to specify custom file/location
Finally, the user's platform-specific data directory
- Linux: ~/.local/share/libro/libro.db
- macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/libro/libro.db
- Windows: %APPDATA%\libro\libro.db

For example, if you want to create a new database file in the current directory, you can use the following command:

libro --db ./libro.db

Import from Goodreads

Libro can import your reading history from a Goodreads export CSV file.

libro import goodreads_library_export.csv

There is a genre field for fiction and nonfiction, but this data is not available in the Goodreads export. I still need to build the edit book functionality to change the genre.

Database Schema

Books table

Field	Type	Description
id	primary key	Unique identifier
title	string	Book title
author	string	Book author
pages	int	Number of pages in book
pub_year	int	Year book was published
genre	string	Fiction or nonfiction

Reviews table

Field	Type	Description
id	primary key	Unique identifier
book_id	foreign key	Book identifier
date_read	date	Date book was read
rating	float	Number between 0 and 5
review	text	Review of book

Packaging

Notes to self, I forget how to do this stuff.