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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hi
everything is OK, but I cannot download book, No download window appears. I also select Auto-get file in DCC. But nothing happen. I see in chat that user again and again resending file. But No download window appears………..
it must be your connection then. it won’t accept DCC transfer. are you in the office or under proxy? there’s this thing called port-forwarding that i think some people are saying but am not really familiar with that.
All fine except i cannot log on to channel /j ebooks. message says address is banned.
You can try #bookz in IRCUndernet. It works perfectly.
haven’t*
Calvin, #ebooks is still banned. on IRChighway. Any info about this?
hey man, can’t help you with that. you need to use a different connection (IP address). For some reason, somebody in your IP range was banned that’s why you can’t get in.
You don’t wanna try #bookz in Undernet instead?
#bookz doesn’t want @find. they want @seek or @search and I get a text file.
What part of the text line do a type in the channel to get the book. Example:
!maj Louise Penny – [Chief Inspector Armand Gamache 04] – The Murder Stone (mobi).rar — 549.70 KB
It should be until the filetype which is .rar.
!maj Louise Penny – [Chief Inspector Armand Gamache 04] – The Murder Stone (mobi).rar
Copy that whole text line into the IRC window (from the exclamation point to the .rar) and push enter. It will then give you a dialogue window, asking where you want to save the file.
Hi,
What are the other ervers and channels for ebooks especially medical.
Not sure there are any. You should try torrent sites.
Also what are the channels for applications windows based?
don’t know for apps. i only know books.
Thanks for the reply