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📚 Personal Library Manager

Python JSON MIT License Contributions Welcome

🚀 Overview

The Personal Library Manager is a Python-based terminal application designed to help users organize, track, and manage their personal book collections. It allows users to add, search, remove, and display books while maintaining a structured database using JSON files.

✨ Features

  • 📖 Add Books: Store book details including title, author, genre, publication year, and read status.
  • 🔍 Search Books: Search by book title or author name.
  • ❌ Remove Books: Delete books from the library.
  • 📜 Display Books: View the entire collection with formatted output.
  • 📊 Statistics: Get insights on your reading progress.
  • 🔄 Data Persistence: Saves book records in a JSON file with an automatic backup feature.

🛠️ Technologies Used

  • Python 3.8+
  • JSON for data storage
  • Shutil for file backup

📂 Project Structure

📂 Personal Library Manager
│── library.json             # Main storage file
│── library_backup.json      # Backup file
│── main.py                  # Main program script
│── README.md                # Project documentation

🔧 Installation & Usage

1️⃣ Prerequisites

Ensure you have Python 3.8+ installed. Check with:

python --version

2️⃣ Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/MuhammadAdnan1998/Personal_Library_Manager_Using_Python.git
cd personal-library-manager

3️⃣ Run the Application

python main.py

4️⃣ Follow the On-Screen Menu

You can choose from the following options:

  1. Add a book 📚
  2. Remove a book ❌
  3. Search for a book 🔍
  4. Display all books 📜
  5. Display statistics 📊
  6. Exit 🚪

📌 Example Usage

Welcome to your Personal Library Manager!
1. Add a book
2. Remove a book
3. Search for a book
4. Display all books
5. Display statistics
6. Exit
Enter your choice: 1
Enter the book title: The Great Gatsby
Enter the author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Enter the publication year: 1925
Enter the genre: Fiction
Have you read this book? (yes/no): yes
Book added successfully!

🎯 Future Enhancements

  • 📡 GUI Version using Tkinter or PyQt.
  • 🔄 Sync with Cloud Storage (Google Drive/Dropbox).
  • 📑 Export/Import Library (CSV, XML support).

📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please follow these steps:

  1. Fork this repository
  2. Create a new branch (feature-branch)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add new feature')
  4. Push to your branch (git push origin feature-branch)
  5. Open a Pull Request

📞 Contact

For any queries or suggestions, feel free to reach out:

🔖 Tagging: python, library-management, book-tracker, json-storage, automation, CLI-tool

Happy Coding! 🚀