Summary:#

The mission of #ebooks has always been to have a nice, friendly irc channel for trading ebooks and chatting with others of the same interests. To create a fun loving, helpful environment without the typical amount of rudeness and disdain that seems to pervade the IRC and Newsgroup community.

We are located on irc server irc.irchighway.net. The #ebooks channel is primarily for fiction ebooks while its brother channel #bookz on the same network is for tech books, audiobooks and basically all the larger book related files.

Guide:#

What’s IRC?

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an application layer protocol that facilitates communication in the form of text. The chat process works on a client/server networking model. IRC clients are computer programs that users can install on their system or web based applications running either locally in the browser or on a 3rd party server. IRC is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages as well as data transfer, including file sharing.

What do I need?

IRC users use a client application to connect to a server. In this guide we will use the free client HEXCHAT.

📖 Setup 📖

When you open the program, we will be asked for different nickname options that we would like to use. And below that we must select the network that we will use. In this case it is IRCHighWay.

Once the network is selected, we must press Edit and check the option Accept invalid SSL certificates.

If everything is fine, a window should appear asking which channel we would like to join. As previously stated the #ebooks channel is primarily for fiction e-books, while its sister channel #bookz on the same network is for technology books, audiobooks, and basically all the larger files.

In this case we will use #ebooks.

Once we are in the channel we may search for ebooks using the command @search and the desired search term. Those can be book titles or authors. In this example I’ll be searching for Hamlet.

The bot will perform a search (it usually takes no more than a few seconds) and, in case of obtaining results, it will send us a .zip file with a list of books that meet the search criteria.

The list includes author’s name, the title of the book and the file format in which it is found. Once we have chosen the one we want to download, simply copy that line of text WITHOUT the :: INFO :: part.

Example: !DukeLupus William Shakespeare - Hamlet [RSC] (retail).epub

Finally, send that line of text in the chat channel and you will receive the file.