PoorBookExtractor is a lightweight graphical tool written in Go for viewing, filtering, and exporting metadata from .inpx book catalogs. It’s especially useful for managing large personal digital libraries.

• Parse .inpx book catalog files entirely in memory (no disk extraction required)
• Browse and filter books by author
• Export selected books to a file
• Group exported books by author
• Simple and responsive GUI built with tk
• Clean, modular codebase written in modern Go
• No persistent storage — just open an .inpx file each time you use the app

• Install TKCL into your system - instructions
• Run program

• Go to release section and download executable file for you operation system.
• Run downloaded file.

• Go 1.20 or later
• OS with Tk support (Linux, Windows, macOS)
• INPX catalog file

git clone https://github.com/HoskeOwl/PoorBookExtractor.git
cd PoorBookExtractor
go build -o poorbookextractor main.go

• Load inpx
• Find needed authors and place
• Move needed books (you could move all books from selected author)
• Export books

• Open — Load an .inpx file into the program.
• Export — Save the books from the export list to your computer.
• Exit — Close the program.

• Type one or more words into the text field, separated by spaces.
• 🔍 — Filters authors whose names contain all the entered words.
• ❌ — Clears the text field and displays the full list of authors.

• Select a single book or an author, then click ➡ to add the book (or all books by that author) to the export list.
• Select a book or an author in the export list, then click ⬅ to remove it (or all their books) from the list.
• Click ❌ to clear the entire export list.

This project is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License — see the LICENSE file for details.