Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

misskool

wageslave wrote: »

It is the shower that will soon be history. Small children insist on a bath. Disney don't do shower gel

Have not got enough space to jiggle a bath and shower in the same room? We decided against making an ensuite for a bathroom that could have a proper bath and a shower cubicle.

lemonjelly

misskool wrote: »

I've spent most of today looking for car insurance. I'll be paying almost the same for insurance as the car. It's insane.

I found this the first 2-3 years of having a car. It makes having insurance seem pointless. If it wasn't only for the minor detail of the legality of it all...

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

paper back dries out readably on a radiator.

Book nerd alert:

Because of the way modern paper is produced, it isn't possible to get a book back to the same condition no matter how carefully it is dried. Ironically older paper has multi-directional fibres so dries better. However that's no reason to read a priceless old first edition in the bath.

wageslave

misskool wrote: »

Have not got enough space to jiggle a bath and shower in the same room? We decided against making an ensuite for a bathroom that could have a proper bath and a shower cubicle.

Yip, I need a big bath and a small shower. I love my big shower:(

I didn't realise you had actually bought a kindle (note to self, read back more than one page).

IRC thingy............

You need an irc client installed. I use chatzilla as it's a small firefox add on but any client will work.

You need to load up the client and then type:

Code:
/server irc.irchighway.net


This will connect you to the irchighway server. Once you're on there you need to type:

Code:
/join #ebooks


This will take you into the ebooks channel which has more than 2.2Terabytes of ebooks for free download. Once you're in simply type:

Code:
@search name of book or author


You will get a message saying that your search has been accepted. A few seconds later a searchbot will offer you a file. Select accept to accept the download. That will send you a .txt file that's zipped. Extract that and you'll get a list of files. I searched for James Patterson and got a list of 1000 files. Here's an extract from it:

Code:
!Bald James Patterson - [Alex Cross] - Jack And Jill (UC) [txt].rar - 202.21 KB
!Bald James Patterson - [Alex Cross] - Kiss The Girls (UC) [txt].rar - 197.63 KB
!Bald James Patterson - [Alex Cross] - Roses Are Red (UC) [txt].rar - 135.80 KB
!Bald James Patterson - [Murder Club] - Second Chance (UC) [txt].rar - 147.38 KB
!Bald James Patterson - Hide And Seek (UC) [txt].rar

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147.96 KB
!Bald James Patterson - Murder Club - First To Die (UC) [txt].rar -- 164.34 KB


Say I wanted to download the first book. I'd copy the text shown below:

Code:
!Bald James Patterson - [Alex Cross] - Jack And Jill (UC) [txt].rar

And paste that into the irc window then press enter (without the file size). After 2-3 seconds you get a prompt asking you to accept or decline the file. Select accept and it will ask you where to save to. Select a location and select save and it will begin downloading.

Try the undernet server, channels #bookz and #ebooks.

Ummm everyone understands what zipped is don't they?

misskool

:kisses: wageslave

Santa dropped a kindle off here this christmas.

treliac

vivatifosi wrote: »

Book nerd alert:

Because of the way modern paper is produced, it isn't possible to get a book back to the same condition no matter how carefully it is dried. Ironically older paper has multi-directional fibres so dries better. However that's no reason to read a priceless old first edition in the bath.

What an absolute fount of knowledge you are dear. :T

vivatifosi

treliac wrote: »

What an absolute fount of knowledge you are dear. :T

Why thanks... But I can't take all the credit, my employers keep sending me on courses so I know stuff:o.

tomterm8

wageslave wrote: »

IRC thingy............

?

How legal is this? I know that there are legally available ebooks for free, but, on the other hand there are a lot of less legally available books too.


edit: I think ebooks are the future for a lot of academic research... if you are writing a niche book maybe 500 people will read, ebooks are just obvious. I wonder when all the universities in the country get together, and ever every masters and PhD dissertation in ebook format to their students. Sure it will happen.

misskool

so viva, why do new books not have multidirectional fibres? it is a cost thing?

vivatifosi

misskool wrote: »

so viva, why do new books not have multidirectional fibres? it is a cost thing?

Mechanical production and rollers apparently.