Phiction Phreak was created because I wanted to write a novel and thought the best way to start would be to read everything I could get my hands on. I saved little pieces of what I read and over time they became a database.
If you want to compile Phiction Phreak, you will need to download Qt. Qt is a cross platform library and IDE that uses C++ to build world class applications. If you don't feel comfortable compiling the source code then you can download the Windows or Mac binaries and install it into any directory.
Qt is extremely well documented and can be downloaded from http://www.qt.io/
Phiction Phreak was created by Corey White, but the project welcomes your contributions.
Phiction Phreak is an open source project, and you can get it through github here: http://treatz.github.io/phiction_phreak/