Having trouble downloading some ebooks
reddit / irc

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grapplerdom · 2018-04-23 23:45

For the most part I'm able to paste the line associated with the
ebook, and after a short time Hexchat (my preferred client) will ask
which folder to download it into. For the past few hours, I've been
pasting a line into the #bookz channel of Undernet, and nothing
happens.


Is there a setting I forgot to change? Remember, this only happens
with some books.

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anarchyisthekey · 2018-04-24 14:01

The book lines start with the name of the bot. You're experiencing it
with some books, because those bots are not online at that point.

Your best bet would be to try to request that book from another bot
(e.g. find another line to paste).  You could also check from time to
time if the bot you're looking for is in the users list. You could
also try to connect to different undernet servers and try your luck
there.

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grapplerdom · 2018-04-24 14:04

That makes sense. It is hard when there's only one line for a certain
title though. By others undernet servers, do you mean thinks like
#bookz and #ebooks, or are those channels, and Undernet itself is a
server? If so, what are the other Undernet servers?

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anarchyisthekey · 2018-04-24 15:01

A IRC network has many servers, so Undernet has many servers, when you
connect to undernet the welcome message says where you've connected
e.g. us, eu, ...

IDK if it is just me, but I noticed that the number of users changed
considerably when I switched between some servers. I do not have
nearly enough experience with IRC to explain this phenamenon but maybe
this could happen due to an unfixed netsplit. If you're connected to a
server on Europe, try a server on America for example.

BTW if you cannot find the book you're looking for, you could try
library genesis and as a last resort the WWW.

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grapplerdom · 2018-04-24 15:12

Yeah, I've been able to find everything not immediately available
through IRC on Genesis. Thank you for explaining servers.