I personally found IRC to be the best solution for ebooks. Not sure how much detail/links are allowed here but theres plenty of guides. Look for “IRCHighway ebooks” on your preferred search engine
Just want to add for anyone who might attempt this, my IRC client of choice is Pidgin. Open source and works on windows as well as Linux (not sure about iOS). Most tutorials suggest the good old mIRC, but using it after the trial period increasingly becomes a pain with its wait screen with timer.
To answer directly, MAM is a great private tracker for many reasons, including their epub library. Bibliotik is supposed to be good but harder to get in.
People don’t like TPB because it is infamous for being packed with malware and sketchy uploads. I assume people were downvoting because there are a lot of safer and more reliable options for epub sourcing
Fun fact: epub can contain a virus without being an exe. Epub is essentially an archive of text, image and stylesheet files (try opening it with WinRAR, you might be surprised). You can put a malware script inside that archive, and it won’t flag until you try opening that ebook on your PC. So you actually need to be more careful with ebooks than, say, video or audio files.
Personally I use a Kobo Libra, as it supports sideloading books manually, supports various formats (epub, pdf, etc), has a nice backlit e-ink display, and physical buttons for page turns in addition to the touch screen.
Also doesn’t support Amazon, which is always a plus. Nice bit of kit.
I use a mix. Sometimes, I’ll read stuff in the foliate app on Linux from my desktop outputting onto a big screen tv.
But I also do an old kindle while lounging on couch/bed and Librera reader on phone (android/f-droid) when I’m on the shitter.
For the most part, I load different things on each and just jump back and forth between several stories. Keeps things interesting and no need to sync bookmarks and whatnot.
Oh, I assumed they would just be supporting it as standard now, that’s annoying. I’ve just gotten myself an Oasis so… well, guess I’ll rustle up my mobi files once more.
Okay so this is weird… I sent a mobi file and it didn’t work.
Dear Customer,
A document sent at 10:24 AM on Wed, Dec 13, 2023 GMT could not be delivered.
Send to Kindle can convert and deliver the following types of documents: • EPUB (.epub)
• Adobe PDF (.pdf)
• Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx)
• Rich Text Format (.rtf)
• HTML (.htm, .html)
• Text (.txt) documents
• Compressed documents (.zip, .xzip)
• JPEG (.jpg), GIF (.gif), Bitmap (.bmp) and PNG (.png) images.
Yeah, it’s silly and odd and likely done to push customers towards formats that they have greater control over.
Those epubs that aren’t really epubs, randomly disallowing azw3 files (that they support officially!!!) from being downloaded directly from the kindle’s built in browser and other restrictive behaviour are part of this. That’s why I’m eventually looking to enable epubs on kindle once the people at mobileread find a way to do it. Apparently calibre can be set up to send files too via email so that’s another option.
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Mobilism.
Not a tracker but golden: https://libgen.rs/ Online/Proxy checker: https://libgen.onl/
Annas Archive is usually my go-to for books, and a lot of other things to be fair!
Just fixing the link.
Thanks for that - I’m on mobile, so not entirely sure what went wrong!
Not a tracker but soulseek is a great place to find books. Its my go to for RPG rulebooks.
Also, don’t forget to look at Standard Ebooks for legal, well formatted public domain books. It’s a great site.
library genesis is pretty good
I personally found IRC to be the best solution for ebooks. Not sure how much detail/links are allowed here but theres plenty of guides. Look for “IRCHighway ebooks” on your preferred search engine
Just want to add for anyone who might attempt this, my IRC client of choice is Pidgin. Open source and works on windows as well as Linux (not sure about iOS). Most tutorials suggest the good old mIRC, but using it after the trial period increasingly becomes a pain with its wait screen with timer.
Interesting I’ll have to look into that. I noticed that I could barely find anything from my normal sites as they are primarily for video.
This is usually my first place, for fiction books. Hardly ever walk away empty-handed.
same. sometimes for really new books in niche genres, i’ll come up empty handed but more often than not i find what i’m looking for
MAM
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Can’t recommend this one enough.
To answer directly, MAM is a great private tracker for many reasons, including their epub library. Bibliotik is supposed to be good but harder to get in.
For other options, have a look here.
Awesome, thanks!
TPB
Why the downvotes? Lol
People don’t like TPB because it is infamous for being packed with malware and sketchy uploads. I assume people were downvoting because there are a lot of safer and more reliable options for epub sourcing
I don’t think anyone is retarded enough to download a exe file when searching for a epub
Fun fact: epub can contain a virus without being an exe. Epub is essentially an archive of text, image and stylesheet files (try opening it with WinRAR, you might be surprised). You can put a malware script inside that archive, and it won’t flag until you try opening that ebook on your PC. So you actually need to be more careful with ebooks than, say, video or audio files.
Out of interest, how do you guys read your ebooks ? Tablets ? E-readers ? Laptops ? Just interested to see who does what.
I send them to my kindle. Shameful, I know, but it’s what I got
Personally I use a Kobo Libra, as it supports sideloading books manually, supports various formats (epub, pdf, etc), has a nice backlit e-ink display, and physical buttons for page turns in addition to the touch screen.
Also doesn’t support Amazon, which is always a plus. Nice bit of kit.
Tablet with ReadEra. Easier to read with customization and no fuss with reading all file types.
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I use the Books app from a downloaded file on iOS
Kobo e-readers
Boox e-reader. I’m able to just log in to my Calibre web server and download the book right onto my device.
I use a mix. Sometimes, I’ll read stuff in the
foliateapp on Linux from my desktop outputting onto a big screen tv.But I also do an old kindle while lounging on couch/bed and Librera reader on phone (android/f-droid) when I’m on the shitter.
For the most part, I load different things on each and just jump back and forth between several stories. Keeps things interesting and no need to sync bookmarks and whatnot.
Pocketbook e-reader
Not a tracker, but #bookz on undernet has been good to me.
Z Library always does well for me.
Agreed. Never had an issue finding anything on zlibrary. Gives you the format you want for whatever device needed.
And with Kindles moving to epub shortly, no need to arse around with converting to mobi.
They’re not though. They only do over the cloud conversions from epub to an amazon proprietary format, that can make the covers or formatting go awry.
Oh, I assumed they would just be supporting it as standard now, that’s annoying. I’ve just gotten myself an Oasis so… well, guess I’ll rustle up my mobi files once more.
Okay so this is weird… I sent a mobi file and it didn’t work.
A document sent at 10:24 AM on Wed, Dec 13, 2023 GMT could not be delivered.
Send to Kindle can convert and deliver the following types of documents: • EPUB (.epub) • Adobe PDF (.pdf) • Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx) • Rich Text Format (.rtf) • HTML (.htm, .html) • Text (.txt) documents • Compressed documents (.zip, .xzip) • JPEG (.jpg), GIF (.gif), Bitmap (.bmp) and PNG (.png) images.
Very odd, so mobi isn’t supported now?
Yeah, it’s silly and odd and likely done to push customers towards formats that they have greater control over.
Those epubs that aren’t really epubs, randomly disallowing azw3 files (that they support officially!!!) from being downloaded directly from the kindle’s built in browser and other restrictive behaviour are part of this. That’s why I’m eventually looking to enable epubs on kindle once the people at mobileread find a way to do it. Apparently calibre can be set up to send files too via email so that’s another option.
Yeah mobi support got removed earlier this year. Epubs work fine for me though once use calibre to remove the DRM.