How to download EBooks for Free on IRC, no spam and no torrent searches (OSX/Mac+windows)

Posted on September 17, 2011 in Blog, Featured, Tutorials

I have repeated the following steps on how to download EBooks so many times, that it is about time i put the instructions in a blog post and just start sharing the link ;p

• OSX users
• Windows users

OSX Users:

• Download an IRC client –  colloquy will do – I am not an irc person and haven’t used irc in ages, so i don’t know what are the hottest or latest clients in there. – but truts me, colloquy will do ;p
• Connecting: After you launch the app you will be greeted with the following screen

Click on New – and input the following parameters : nickname of your choice – server protocol = “IRC” – click on the drop down button and choose irc.irchighway.net

Next is to connect to the chatroom – ebooks – all you have to do is click “join Room” on the welcome screen mentioned above.

For Windows

• Download an IRC client – mirc will do – i am not an irc person and haven’t used irc in ages, so i don’t know what are the hottest latest clients in there. – but trust me, good old mirc will do ;p
• Choose a nickname : After you launch  mirc- on the connect screen – specify a scary looking nickname  – something like l33tHax0r961 or a cute name with body parts in it, like hotS3XYL1p5. You must at least include a few numbers !

• Choose a server : The server we are looking for is IRCHighway – click on servers – scroll to find IRCHighway

• Accepting transfers: since we will “downloading” ebooks – you must make sure that your client is accepting the file transfers, to do that, go to DCC – select “Ignore” – here you can specify what to do with file transfers.
  • Disable
  • Accept only
  • Ignore only

Here you select “Accept only” and make sure to add the file extension you will use like *.pdf, *.zip *.rar

• Connecting : euh click connect – wait a few secs where you get some fancy sounds and words scrolling on your screen – this will look impressive on a black background with green fonts. You will be prompted for a channel name – enter : “ebooks“

and ta da ! you are in Ebook Heaven !!! ( trust me when i say that )

You probably have to do the above steps once – next time, you just double click on your recent connections in mirc.

The next step are Find and Download

• Searching for a book : all you have to do is type the @search command – example: @search the prophet

You will automatically receive a file with the full list of books available. Here is a sample for search on “furniture” :

!Bonaparte Fine_Woodworking_-_Guide_For_Cabinet_And_Furniture_Construction(1).pdf ::INFO:: 2.1MB
!Bonaparte Fine_Woodworking_-_Guide_For_Cabinet_And_Furniture_Construction(1).rar ::INFO:: 1.1MB
!Bonaparte Fine_Woodworking_-_Guide_For_Cabinet_And_Furniture_Construction(2).pdf ::INFO:: 1.4MB
!Bonaparte Fine_Woodworking_-_Guide_For_Cabinet_And_Furniture_Construction(2).rar ::INFO:: 739.1KB
!Bonaparte Fine_Woodworking_-_Guide_for_cabinet_and_furniture_construction.pdf ::INFO:: 3.1MB
!Bonaparte Fine_Woodworking_-_Guide_for_cabinet_and_furniture_construction.rar ::INFO:: 1.8MB
!Bonaparte 4-296Spring-2005 Furniture Making.zip ::INFO:: 493.3KB
!Bonaparte Furniture Making Projects.rar ::INFO:: 11.5MB
!Bonaparte The Art Of Woodworking – Classic American Furniture.zip ::INFO:: 27.5MB
!Bonaparte The Art Of Woodworking – Outdoor Furniture.zip ::INFO:: 27.6MB
!Bonaparte The Art Of Woodworking – Shaker Furniture.zip ::INFO:: 26.7MB
!Bookaloo Pulp – All-Story.13.09.Wolfs Furniture Mine – Ralph J. Roeder [pdf].rar ::INFO:: 73.4KB
!Bookaloo Roeder, Ralph J – Wolfs Furniture Mine [pdf].rar ::INFO:: 73.4KB
!Bookaloo Norbury – Furniture for the 21st century [pdf].rar ::INFO:: 25.2MB
!Bookaloo A H Stewart – Type Cases and Composing-Room Furniture [html].rar ::INFO:: 2.6MB
!Bookaloo H. H. Windsor – Mission Furniture (html).rar ::INFO:: 3.1MB
!Bookaloo H. H. Windsor – Mission Furniture (txt).rar ::INFO:: 39.4KB

• Donwload
  All you have to do is copy/paste into the main channel the book you want ex:
  !Bookaloo H. H. Windsor – Mission Furniture (txt).rar
  Don’t copy the :info part – just till the file name.The bot Bookaloo will go and fetch the book for you and send it for download.Easy – Simple – Unblockable :)