How to download e-books from mIRC
Before we got torrents, P2P and even before Napster, mIRC was the best place where you could get lots of movies, apps and mp3′s for free. It’s not an easy thing to use for downloading but once you get the hang of it, you’ll learn of its benefits.
I’m an avid user of mIRC back in college and I still have it installed in my machine for the occasional hard-to-find mp3′s and for e-books. It’s very difficult to find the e-book that you want from LimeWire or torrents so I’ll teach you how you could easily get them from mIRC.
The instructions here are a bit detailed so forgive me if you’re looking for a short guide.
You have to get the latest version of mIRC and install it in your machine. You don’t have to register it if you don’t want to.
Joining a channel
Before you can go to a channel and start your downloads, create some login details first.
It’s time to connect to a server. Here are a couple of places in mIRC where you can get e-books.
Server: Undernet
Channel: #Bookz
Server: IRCHighway
Channel: #ebooks
Since I’m having trouble joining channel #bookz in Undernet (always full), I’ll go to IRCHighway instead.
In the Connect menu, click Servers and look for IRCHighway then click Select. Then click Connect to server.
Wait until you get connected.
Before doing anything else, you need to tweak some settings to allow downloading. Go to Tool > Options > Sounds, then click Requests. Uncheck Send !nick file as private message.
(Optional) Still in the Options, click DCC and select Auto-get file so that you don’t have to babysit your downloads.
When done click OK.
You can start joining a channel. In the command line type /j ebooks (/j bookz if your’re in Undernet) then hit Enter.
Geting your e-Book
Ok in the channel, you can begin searching for an e-book. The search command is @find <keyword>. For example if I want to find James Patterson’s Step on a Crack, I’ll type “@find patterson step crack“.
Then wait for a few seconds for people/bots with positive matches to send you a private message. There will be a lot if what you’re looking for is popular.
Click each private window to check if they got the file that you want. Once you find one, select and copy the command on how to get the file. Highlight the text then press CTRL-C to copy the command.
The get command starts with “!” and ends with the filename.
For example, MysteryTrain has a lot of results and I need a file with a .lit extension so I’m gonna copy the command !MysteryTrain Patterson, James – Step on a Crack (v1.0).lit
Then go back to the main channel (#ebooks) and paste the command there and hit Enter.
Wait for awhile before the download window appears.
The download speed depends on the sharer but e-Book files seldom exceed 1 MB. When done, you can get the file from the download folder.
The default download folder is C:\Program Files\mIRC\download.
That’s it! Enjoy your e-Book. Let me know if you’re having troubles with my instructions by leaving a comment so I can clear things up for you.
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Hey, I’m using KVIRC (but whatever) it seems that once my download gets to about 99% (or very close to finishing) it stops. Any ideas why?
Cheers.
sorry man, not familiar with that.
No worries, I worked out that it was my firewall blocking it. Just had to tick off the work-around. Cheers anyway!
Hi Calvin, I just want to ask if Undernet bookz and IRC Highway books are compatible with Macbook Lion X. I tried downloading from there awhile ago and whenever I download the .txt / .zip file for the list of titles and authors, my computer cannot open it.I used the archive utilitiy of macbook without success. Only an ext name is added to the file name .cpgz. If i click that one the same thing will happen. Thanks and I hope you can help me with this problem. I’m using Colloquy as an IRC client.
not familiar with mac but isn’t there a winzip for mac? check the file too if it has the right size. maybe the download didn’t complete.
Okay salamat po! I downloaded another archive utility from the apple apps and it worked. Thanks!
if I dont get any message?
Has IRCHighway died? Only one man in there and the @find function didn’t work as is supposed.
im not sure and can’t check at the moment but i used undernet a couple of weeks ago so you might want to try that instead.
Is there a way to convert rar files so my kindle is able to find the book? I am not tech savvy so I have my book file but unable to read it. I dragged and clicked it into my Kindle but with no success.
Hi RAR files are compressed files like ZIP. You need to download a software to unpack it and the content is the one you put on your kindle.
Winrar is small and free, just google for it.
First, If you want to convert book formats IE, Epub to Lit Get Calbrie. I know that isn’t what you asked but it is such a great eBook organizer program I have to recommend it.
Second, I went to Bookz, and the other channel you recommended. But I am having trouble finding the chronicles of Nick, I use to be able to find anything on demonoid so I was hoping for success I found there on mirc. any recommendations?
download window does not appear
ANy idea of a channel for textbooks?
I dont think there’s a separate channel but there’s bound to be text books either on the irc or floating around as torrents