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4310288 No.4310288[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Please don't rip on me /lit/ but I must ask.

I'm hanging out on irc at #bookz now how do I actually get a book from here?

Do I just type the name or some shit? Nobodies really talking in here, everyone is just searching books.

I actually am not new to irc but haven't been in #bookz before.

Any help?

Also would adobe reader XI be good enough to use for reading e books on my laptop?

ITT: OP wants help using #books and is new to e reading.

>> No.4310294

>>4310288

Be polite /lit/ I really am new to the whole e reading thing.

>>4310292

I'm lurking #books in irc and have no idea how to download an e book from that place.

>> No.4310292

I read this thread through twice and I still can't discern what it's about.

>> No.4310298

OP needs to read the fucking sticky

>> No.4310299

For fucks sake
>encyclopediadramatica.es/Bookz#How_to_Find_Books
It takes five minutes to read the whole fucking article.

>> No.4310300

>>4310292

Are you familiar with irc? I'm in the #bookz channel and I guess you can download e books from there.

>>4310298

Your sticky doesn't say shit on how to download from that place.

>> No.4310305

>>4310299

Oh my bad. Thanks anon.

>> No.4310306

Once you have connected to undernet and are in the channel called #bookz, it should be pretty easy to figure out what is going on there. However, a quick set of instructions might be necessary for novice users:
Figure out what you want to read. For example, you wish to read "Dune" by Frank Herbert.
Search for what you want. #bookz has several "bots" that will quickly search through all of the files hosted within the channel. To do a search, you must use the correct command words within the channel before you will be able to see a list.
Example: @find Frank Herbert
Doing a search like this will give you back a text file list of ALL the titles and ALL the files that contain the words "Frank" and "Herbert." There is a very good chance that you will find "Dune" on that list. However, that search is too broad, perhaps you want to narrow that down a bit so that you get a shorter list of files to choose from?
Example: @find Frank Herbert Dune
This search will give you a list of all files containing both the author and the title of the file you are looking for.
Once you have that text file full of all those files you want, simply select the best version available. Do this by copying the whole line of text that contains the file you wish. Start with the exclamation point (!) and keep selecting all the way to the file size. Copy that line.
Paste that line directly into the channel. This will tell the file server that you wish to download that file. You will be placed in a queue that usually moves pretty quickly owing to the fact that text files and .pdf files are generally small in size.
Wait.
Your file should automatically begin downloading to your IRC client's default download folder.
Once the download is complete, you can unrar, unzip, or open the file and read it as you would any other sort of eBook or txt file

>> No.4310311

I couldn't really figure it out either.

>> No.4310317

>>4310311

I think I got it covered. I just hope I can read the file in Adobe Reader XI

>> No.4310325

>>4310311
>>4310317

Awesome got it figured out. I just downloaded Sumatara PDF and it works fine.

Why haven't I done this before? Fuck the library man.

>> No.4310333

>>4310325
>Fuck the library man.
It's surprisingly tough to find a lot of books on the #bookz and the internet in general, especially with older stuff. Have fun though, lots of good stuff on there.

>> No.4310413

New to /lit/ and wanted to try out #bookz. Everything was working well until Cannot join #bookz (User limit reached).
Does this happen often or am I doing something wrong?

>> No.4310456

>>4310413

I'm having connection issues too. Don't know why but it won't let me connect I keep getting some weird server errors.

>> No.4310462

>>4310456
I kept trying and got in. I think it's having issues. Keep trying to reconnect every few minutes

>> No.4310502

>>4310462

I don't know what it was. Some weird server issue. I finally got back in though.

>> No.4310506

I was never successful with #bookz. I think you have to want a certain type of book for it to be beneficial.

>> No.4310524

>>4310502
Having more connection issues again. grabbed a bunch of stuff and then a sudden disconnection. I think the servers down

>> No.4310529

>>4310524

The problem I'm having is that the ppl that have the books I'm searching for are off line.

God damn it this is a pain.