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The Library (places to find e-books)
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Project Gutenberg and Project Gutenberg Australia- Over twenty-eight thousand books no longer in copyright. Due to differing copyright laws the two sites have slightly different content.
Internet Sacred Texts Archive- The largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet.
The Internet Classics Archive- Four hundred and forty-one searchable classics provided by our good friends at MIT.
The Burgomeisters Books- Over seventeen hundred modern classics and bestsellers. Meant to resume chronologically where Gutenberg leaves off. Courtesy of a nice man in Panama.
World Public Library- Half a MILLION ebooks. Does unfortunately require a yearly membership fee of nine dollars. If I break down and pay I'll surely post the login info.
Wowio- Purportedly the only source where readers can legally access high-quality copyrighted ebooks from leading publishers for free. More importantly, they have comics! Accessible from the iPhone.
Manybooks- Twently-three thousand and some ebooks specializing in obscure formats so you can put them on your PDA, mobile phone or specialized ebook reader.
The Online Books Page- Thirty-five thousand books from the University of Pennsylvania. Ace selection of banned books.
Baen Free Library- A bunch of I believe mostly sci-fi and fantasy titles. Available for download in a few different formats or you can always read them online.
E-Books Directory- Nearly seventeen thousand ebooks, documents and lecture notes in over three hundred categories. More everyday.
Google Books- Search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide using Google Book Search. They have some excellent stuff, although you might have to dig for it.
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Gigipedia (250,000+ ebooks)
http://gigapedia.com/
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Lanny's Guide to Downloading Ebooks
(That you probably haven't read before)
By: Lanny
This is my guide to downloading ebooks from #bookz, the largest source of copyrighted ebooks on the internet. It is done via IRC/DCC, no torrents or HTTP downloads involved.
1. Requirements
You're going to need :
* IRC client with DCC file transfer (I recommend Xchat (mIRC works too))
* A book name or author (category searches won't do)
2. What you're doing
You're going to be connecting to a IRC channel populated mainly by bots. These bots index and share large collections of ebooks. You use the operating bot to search books and then download a book from a list.
3. Do it!
Included are screenshots using X-chat. The steps are the same, but the pictures may not apply if you're not using X-chat.
1. Connect to us.undernet.org (eu.undernet.org if you're east of the Atlantic)
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2. Join the #bookz channel. Don't try to chat, 90% of the room are bots.
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3. Issue a public message like "@search Isaac Asimov" substituting Isaac Asimov for whatever book or author you are searching for (@seek also works, they return slightly different results as I understand it).
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4. You will be offered a zip over DCC. Select where you want to save and open it.
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5. You should have a text file that looks similar to this:
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6. Find the file you want to download. From the image above I think the book listed on the line that reads "!afilon Asimov, Isaac - Foundation Trilogy - Introduction.txt ::INFO:: 21.1KB" is what I want to download. From here, I copy from the start of the line to just before the double space in front of the "::INFO::", that is to say, I would copy "!afilon Asimov, Isaac - Foundation Trilogy - Introduction.txt". Now paste this into your client and send it.
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7. Depending on how many other users a bot is serving you may be put in a bot's queue, if this happens, simply wait until you are moved to the front of the queue. If it is taking too long, or the bot appears to not be responding it is acceptable to try another bot.
8. If the bot has no queue, or when you reach the front of a bot's queue you will be offered another zip file via DCC. Accept it the same way as the first zip. This zip contains your book.
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Awesome! I'll be checking these out later!
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Re: The Library
This is all fantastic. I might just run off a couple of these at the school library.
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Re: The Library
Gigipedia (250,000+ ebooks)
http://gigapedia.com/
They have the tendency to open/close registration at random, so heres a zoklet account if you can't make your own or just don't want to.
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Re: The Library
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Gigipedia (250,000+ ebooks)
http://gigapedia.com/
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07-07-2009, 07:38 PM
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Re: The Library
This is not a free ebook site, but a search engine that scans all the major online book sellers looking for the cheapest copy of whatever work you're buying:
http://www.bookfinder.com/
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09-20-2009, 02:26 PM
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Re: The Library
can anyone actually read several hundred pages on their computer screen? my eyes would explode...and i'd miss the portability of a book.
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can anyone actually read several hundred pages on their computer screen? my eyes would explode...and i'd miss the portability of a book.
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Yeah this, that's why i download them and put them on my mobile phone...
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09-20-2009, 02:36 PM
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Re: The Library
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Yeah this, that's why i download them and put them on my mobile phone...
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well i'm not a trend faggot with a blackberry or iphone or other such advanced technology. my phone is a phone is a phone.
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09-20-2009, 02:39 PM
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well i'm not a trend faggot with a blackberry or iphone or other such advanced technology. my phone is a phone is a phone.
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i dont own an iphone or a blackberry. Also i'm not a 'trend faggot', my old phone was old as shit so i got new more advanced one.
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09-20-2009, 02:53 PM
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Re: The Library
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well i'm not a trend faggot with a blackberry or iphone or other such advanced technology. my phone is a phone is a phone.
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Dude, chill out. Why the hell would I buy a separate phone and a separate ebook reading device, when I can buy a good phone that fulfills both of those roles? Less to carry! And I have the additional gps and a few other fun things with me.
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Re: The Library
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Dude, chill out. Why the hell would I buy a separate phone and a separate ebook reading device, when I can buy a good phone that fulfills both of those roles? Less to carry! And I have the additional gps and a few other fun things with me.
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mines is a nokia as well, what phone is yours?
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mines is a nokia as well, what phone is yours?
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N95-2. Decent battery, good screen for reading too. And lots and lots of space for ebooks.
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Re: The Library
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N95-2. Decent battery, good screen for reading too. And lots and lots of space for ebooks.
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Mine is the 5800 XpressMusic. Good screen for reading aswell and a lot of space for ebooks. Also a lot of space for music. So i just read and listen to music at the same time. So yeah, your phones probably better than mine, but they both can handle ebooks easily. so yeah...
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Re: The Library
So awesome that I'm posting just to come back and give thanks (and explore these funk ass links).
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Re: The Library
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Why the hell would I buy a separate phone and a separate ebook reading device
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why would you buy an "ebook reading device?"
it's called a fucking book and they are available for free at the god damn library.
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Re: The Library
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why would you buy an "ebook reading device?"
it's called a fucking book and they are available for free at the god damn library.
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Haha! If you live in a first-world country in the west where books and cheap and libraries aplenty (and well stocked too!) then you're right! Almost!
But when I live somewhere where the three nearest libraries only have sci-fi and fantasy from the early 90's, where books cost 6 hours of minimum wage labor then we are fucked. Thus I chose to shell out quite some cash and buy a:
phone
ebook reader
pretty decent digital camera (which also acts as a webcam)
kinda decent gps and maps
And it all comes in one fun-sized brick of plastic and silicon. Oh yeah, I forgot, I live in a temporary place and buying books is out of the question since I won't lug them a few thousand kilometers to the US and then to the UK. Oh, and forget about english books, they're hard to come by.
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well its a bit ironic that you live in a poor country yet buy all these gadgets and gizmos and odds and ends.
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Re: The Library
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well its a bit ironic that you live in a poor country yet buy all these gadgets and gizmos and odds and ends.
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Re: The Library
www.librivox.org
has a huge selection of public domain audiobooks.
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Yea Project Pat, thanks for posting that. I checked that out a few months ago and it's great. Oh, and thanks to everyone else for posting stuff. +1 for free books  - Zoklet.net_files/biggrin.gif "Grin")
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Bookmarking the fuck out of this thread.
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Re: The Library (places to find e-books)
Check out
www.tuebl.com
The ultimate e-book library
Over 7000 new, copyrighted books in ePub format, accessible on iPhone, Android, nook, etc. It's amazing. Lots of new reading material and new releases!
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Re: The Library (places to find e-books)
A good place to look is
obook.com
It's got loads of original stores so you don't have to worry about shit being copyrighted (unless you redistibute without author\obooko's permission).
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Where is a good place to find textbooks? I've been somewhat lucky in the past with just google searches, but now all I am finding are sites that seem malicious (download links as .exe files?) or just worthlessly inaccurate search engines.
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Re: The Library (places to find e-books)
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Where is a good place to find textbooks? I've been somewhat lucky in the past with just google searches, but now all I am finding are sites that seem malicious (download links as .exe files?) or just worthlessly inaccurate search engines.
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I've found a few of my textbooks using Lanny's method, but the bots that have everything I need are never answering. I'm getting pretty frustrated since some are also novels that I haven't been able to find anywhere else.
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Re: The Library
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well i'm not a trend faggot with a blackberry or iphone or other such advanced technology. my phone is a phone is a phone.
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Now that it's 2012 do you think it's a trend?
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Re: The Library (places to find e-books)
Looking through the OP and other sites I've been unsuccessful. Is anyone willing to help me find a book titled "For Argument's sake: An Effective Guide to Writing"? The author is Katherine Mayberry. I'd be eternally grateful to anyone able to help.
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Re: The Library (places to find e-books)
This thread needs pruning or some lovin. Used to be gigapedia, nows it's gone. Used to be demonoid, now it's gone.
Most of my sources have died out over the years, but one that seems to still somewhat works is http://www.bookfi.org.
Wait, just discovered that demonoid is back online. They used to have a fuckload of high quality ebooks: https://www.demonoid.ph
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