Sage for taking time and effort to contribute to /lit/.

Didn't know about it, but it seems cool, thanks bro.

yea mediafire ftw

>>600295
It was for my own reasons. I really, really hate chaotically disorganized files and I'm gonna buy an ereader in a few weeks. Oh, and I have a massive amount of free time at college (hence having four days to do this.)

If it takes an extra half-hour to upload to media sharing sites for lit, why not?

Much apriciated for work. What kind of books are in this package?

Fuck yeah, anonymous!

>shady downloads on /lit/

sage just in case

>>600342
The lion's share of the books are old sci-fi or fantasy genre novels (think Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov...et cetera.)

But there are a lot of other books, too - almost all of the Discworld series, for example, and I think most or all of Stephen King's work, just to name a few off the top of my head. Some books on programming and such, too...there's all sorts of random crap.

>>600352
Scanned 'em myself with AntiVir and Avast!, but no need to take my word for it, of course.

#bookz

Eh, I'll download just in case some catastropy strucks and destroys internet.

good work OP

>>600372

Downloaded first one. It is legit, but op forgot to say that all of them are .jpg books.
So don't look stupid when there is a bunch of pictures in zip file. Just change extention to .rar and extract them with winrar.

>>600461
There's an image in w-z that says how to open .jpg rar archives. But I forgot to mention that, thanks.

>>600461

ups, deserves bigger babe resoultion

links!

>>600489
?

torrent?

>>600539
Sorry, I didn't make a torrent for it. I'm actually on a college campus for the next two weeks and I can't really risk seeding a torrent.

How many megabytes in total? Even though I despise electronic books, I might consider downloading them so I don't have to wait to buy the books before reading.

>>600605
1.12GB. Although you could just delete all the authors you have no interest in reading.

>>600613
That's decently small, especially since I resurrected my mum's old computer and now store my films on it so I have tonnes of space.
Thanks for the effort as well.

Someone should sticky this for a while.

>>600629
Well, they're mostly small images and then text files, so now that I cleared out all the duplicates (there were ~1000 or so extra files in the archive that were exact copies of another file in a different folder. Ick.) it cut down on the size immensely.

>>600643
Agreed. Just for a few days so passing anons can download it.

any good authors???

NICE WORK OP!

just bumpin for knowledge

>>600710
Name some good authors, I'll see if they're there.

>>600672
ARCHIVE IT MAGGOTS

OP. Good stuff. So far I've downloaded A-I and there are a couple I already have, some I wanted to read and many I have never seen before. How exciting ^^
>>600841
Good idea.

This can take a few seconds...
Checking if the thread exists: >>600240.html
The thread has been found, continue processing.

Thanks for your request.
It has been added to our database and the thread will be archived as soon as enough request for that thread have been made.
This thread has been requested 1 times now.

>>600878
2 times now.

>>600878
4 more to go.

Bump for great justice.

OP, this is win. So many books... so little time...

Does anyone know where the full book list is so I can know which ones are worth downloading?

lawdy, thanks op. I will likely never read all of these, but it's great to have the possibility.

>>600973
Unless you're limited on disk space, just do what I did and download them all, deleting ones you don't want.

>>600984
Actually the issue is my connection. Downloading all of those would take three days probably. As it is Im getting a four hour estimate on the first one.

>>601003
Hmm, unless OP can provide, I suppose you will have to be patient, my friend.
Waiting is, brother. Waiting is.

>>A-B: http://www.mediafire.com/?myzjghad1m5

Fill with Cover Images but not Book ?

>>601024
Using WindZip can't find some programm to read them

>>601024
Use WinRAR or something and open them in that. They're .rar archives.

Or just change ".jpg" in the filename to ".rar." There's an image in W-Z that explains how to open them.

>>600973
There any good way to automatically make a list of every file in a folder? Couldn't get command prompt's dir command to work, for some reason, which annoys me greatly.

>>601039
It only show me the covers of the book but not the reading part!!>D

Halp i wanna read dresen files

>>601071
I could take some screenshots for you, if you like. While I have insomnia and all.

>>601075
Download WinRAR if you do not have it already.

Right click a .jpg image. Choose Open With...

Find WinRAR. Select it. Uncheck "use this program to open files of this type from now on" or whatever.

Now open the .jpg image with WinRAR. Profit.

>>601082
That would be awesome.

>>601075
Click "rename".
Change the .jpg bit into .rar
open in your archive manager of choice
Extract
???
profit

The W-Z one contains an image explaining how to extract the books from the files.

>>601091
Only works if you've enabled showing file extensions. Which smart people do, of course, but not everyone.

how do I read the .lit files? Do I need an e-reader or summat, or could I just read them on my laptop?

>>601110
You need certain software. Ask google. I know Ubuntu's default document viewer can't handle it.

>>601110
ConvertLIT GUI is the one I use, but I'm planning on nabbing Calibre sometime.

>>601091
1. Extract every α->β pack from mediafire to a single folder
2. Open Notepad
3. type:
>ren *.jpg *.rar (no ">" sign)
4. File->Save as...-> All files. Save the document as whatever.bat inside the folder where you extracted everything
5. Go to that folder. Doubleclick whatever.bat
6. Wait a few secs.
6. You can now open everything with WinRar.

>>601098
YAYs it work !

Here's the how-to.

>>601156
/lit/ - Literature

1. All literature discussion is welcome.
> 2. Do not upload images with embedded RAR files.
3. This is not a fan-fic board!
4. There is to be no discussion of Ayn Rand.

>>601172
I didn't upload any image with .rar archives in them.

I just posted links to them.

>>601178
just a heads up

>>601178
He was talking to me.
Does that pic have an embedded .rar? I didn't look- I just thought it was the instructions.

>>601195
You can't actually upload them anymore. It would either strip the .rar or reject it, I forget which. The rule is a little out of date, I guess.

>>600333
>free time
>at college
Fucking HOW? I haven't slept in days, you fucker!

>>601211
It surprised the hell out of me, too, trust me.

>>601216
What year/major are you? I'm a sophomore English major; this degree was supposed to be cake.

People posted links to the old archives all the time. You can see the links in /rs/.

This is just that archive, but with all the 4chan-image filenames replaced with sensical sorting, and with all the duplicate files disposed of.

>>601235
Freshman, but I've already knocked out almost all of my liberal arts reqs (AP high school classes are win for this) so I'm already working on my major, CIS.

I assume it gets harder, though. Might as well enjoy it while it lasts.

>>601243
Forgot to mention, minoring in Economics.

>>601243
Yeah, might as well. I shouldn't even be on /lit/ right now.

OP SOO MUCH WIN

I fix it and got WinRar and got an Ebook reader is now reading Dresen Files Fuck yeah

>>601286
Hey, thanks. I'm glad /lit/'s getting a use out of this.

OP, you have done a service. Has this been archived yet?

Hey thanks OP, just grabbed the M - Q file and am currently reading the next novel in the Rincewind line.

>>601396
No, help with that!

bmup

Archive this shit naoz!

/is a newfag

/don''t know how to archive

>>601532
Google 4chan Archive. Click Archive Request form or something. Select /lit/ and type in 600240.

>>601561
Thanks for your request.
It has been added to our database and the thread will be archived as soon as enough request for that thread have been made.
This thread has been requested 4 times now.

>>601591
Thanks!

bumpp

C-E.rar: CRC failed in D\Dennett, Daniel C. - Breaking the Spell.jpg. The file is corrupt

C-E.rar: CRC failed in D\Dick, Philip K. - Collected Stories 04 - Minority Report.jpg. The file is corrupt

F-I.zip: CRC failed in H\Hitchens, Christopher - God Is Not Great.jpg. The file is corrupt

M-Q.rar: CRC failed in P\Pynchon, Thomas - Gravity's Rainbow.jpg. The file is corrupt

>>601814
Yeah, I got those.

>>601814
Dunno what to tell you - I just checked all four of those and they work for me. I did not check every last archive, though, but I did check most of them.

Sorry...I can try sending them again sometime but not tonight, I need to sleep.

>>601832
Shouldn't worry- get your sleep. God knows, I didn't last night (just stayed up all night and it's morning here).

Not Op

Shit im tired im going to sleep good bye /lit/

Just downloaded them all myself. This is great!

awesome!

Only needs two more votes to archive!

Good job OP

>Congrats, your request has just triggered the archival process for thread 600240

'cause OP is my bro.

You deserve a medal, OP!

Thanks, mate. You've made my day.

Thank you, OP!

I'm glad to see so many people have liked this so far.

>>601814

can someone upload non-corrupted files of these ones please

Thanks OP, checking it out

>>604096
They work for me, so I dunno what to tell you. You could try the sites in the Bookchan Sources image in W-Z.

Anyone else have some e-books?

Been checking every time someone recommends a good book in /lit/ and 99%, you have it :D

>>604328
99% of the time, I meant to say.

>>601814
Seconding this request

>>604635
see
>>604128

The bookchan sources image contains, well, bookchan's sources. They have a hell of a lot of ebooks that this archive doesn't have.

>>604720
Not >>604635
But true. I had a small orgasm just looking at the first two links.

Thank you kind sir! I'll most definitely enjoy this... I was getting bored of reading the stale old books over and over again...

I'm unfamilliar with torrents and I am wondering if this is legal. I really enjoy literature but I don't want to be fined/arrested.

>>601083
>winrar
is for fags
MEN use 7zip

Just kidding again. You fucking rock, OP.

it's . . . beautiful.

I am having trouble getting this shit to work with Ubuntu 9.10.
Help?

Question: How many gigs are all these in total?

>>605310

moar specific!

>>605313

I am at step one. I have the folders that appear to have nothing but .jpegs.

VAMPIRE BOOKS ARE FOR VAMPIRES! READ WHAT HUMANS LOVE TO READ! LIKE THE ONE WITH THE DOG THAT SAYS "THIS STORY TIGHT AS HELL NIGGA"!

>>605325

Seriously, can i get some help?

>>605311
1.13GB

>>605432
I recommend getting a non-shitty operating system, for starters. Secondly, google "Ubuntu-compatible .rar" or something.
http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/02/15/open-rar-archives-in-ubuntu/

>>605524


Working on getting 7. I hate working with Ubuntu.

>>605524

also, i have already done what that site says.

>>605432

sudo apt-get install unrar

Bump for literary justice.

>>601814
Would anyone be kind enough to upload:
>Dennett, Daniel C. - Breaking the Spell.jpg. The file is corrupt
>Dick, Philip K. - Collected Stories 04 - Minority Report.jpg. The file is corrupt
>Hitchens, Christopher - God Is Not Great.jpg. The file is corrupt
>Pynchon, Thomas - Gravity's Rainbow.jpg. The file is corrupt

Or at least Gravity's Rainbow.
Much appreciated.

Supposing I download this, will I need a particular program to read them?

>>606388
I -think- they're all .rtf files (I randomly picked out two books and they were both .rtf).

>>606388
You will need WinRAR (or any .rar compatible compression program, 7-Zip would work) to open them and a .pdf viewer, ConvertLIT GUI or something else to convert .lit files, and Word or Word Document Viewer or something to open .doc files.

Or you could download a program like Calibre that will convert them all to whatever format you prefer. Up to you.

>>606375
You're the third or fourth person to ask. See >>601832 . They work for me so I'm not sure what to tell you.

Thankyou OP you are awesome for doing this.

>>606375
You'd want to grab a deadtree version of that but I'll see what I can do

mad props to OP for this

>>606888
http://www.mediafire.com/?ufyzmqzcfki
Gravity's Rainbow

I gotta give OP his props for doing this. It's awesome.

However, the fact that there's Ann Coulter in there (ewww), and no Communist Manifesto, makes me a bit sad.

>>606917
There's a Commie Manifesto in mine.
Dunno what happened to yours. It's in 'M' under 'Marx, Karl'.

>>606916
Thanks a lot man!

>>606927
My search function sucks; that's what. I just searched communist and got nothing. Guess you have to search the beginning of the filename.

>>606931
woman, np

This seemed the thread to just share this website:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

Contains every sacred/mythological text you could ever want. I found it because I was searching for some tablet translations from an ancient civilisation... I can't remember which.
Reason I post in this thread is because it didn't seem worth a thread to itself and this thread is about sharing books.

>>600240
>>600240
Thanks OP, these were my files and I didn't have time to sort them - /lit/ power

>>606971
Found this:
The Earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound.
Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book,
and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching."
Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BCE

lol

Awesome thread; thanks, OP.

Stop slipping off the front page!
Pesky thread...

>rapidshare is shit, so I used mediafire instead
I LOVE YOU OP

>>607053
Where did you find this? I searched for it, but no joy :(

>>607512
I was trying to find whatever ancient tablet translation I was looking for to find the sacredtexts website, so I searched "assyrian tablet"-
HOLD THAT THOUGHT. Literally just remembered that it was the Sumerian Tablets of Creation.

No A Clockwork Orange in this collection? For shame.

>>607821
nvm it's in there lol.

>>607821
Wrong!
You must have the same problem as the commie in this thread before. Physically look up Burgess, Anthony. It's there, I promise you.

Someone sticky this already...

mods: sticky.

wut mods

Not sure if mods are allowed to support the illegal downloading of books

>>608540
...You never saw /rs/ or /t/ did you?

HOLD THE FUCK UP!

R.A.W did NOT write the principia Discordia!

It was written by Malcalypse the Younger AKA George Hill

>>608540

You jest, surely?

>>608675
> George Hill
You mean Greg. And you left out Thornley.

>>608675
Sorry, there might be some in error but I usually just took the filename's or the image's word for it; there is no way I could possibly stop to look up 2,179 ebooks, of course...

Wow, this is much nicer than the old archive.

Bump

Nice.

Another sticky request.

Lol, ubuntufag here from earlier in the thread.

I changed the bible to a rar (just tinkering around, if it fucked up, then nothing of value would be lost).

Shit has like ten pages of MODSAREFAGS repeated until it ended in FUCK YOU.

LOL.

>>611599
LMFAO. It's true :')
Would be great if all books were erased from the face of the Earth except for these ones and christfags were left with that message.

>>611599
Never noticed that. I'll be sure to get rid of that for next time.

Woah, bump.

sticky / bump

260 people have downloaded A-B, and the numbers go down as you go down the list, W-Z has only 160.

That's weird.

>>612842
not really - that's what I'd have expected

Just Another Sticky Request.

this has been up for days.

>>614247
That's a good thing.

>>614125
Why?

>Create a thread with a shit ton of book links and places to get them on early /lit/

>People care more about Ayn Rand and copy pasta and ignore thread

Damn, you guys sure have done a 180.

Thread has been here for half a week.

Keeping it afloat while quite a few people have used it is hardly ignoring.

I just found this thread. OP rocks!

bump

I still say this thread should be stickied.

What's with the needed passwords for Canada survival guide and others? (under the anon section)

>>616055
Didn't even notice that - I have no idea.

If someone has an archive password cracker, that'd be helpful...if not, I'll just delete it.

Bump~

Wonder if this thread will last one week.

>>617431
It wont

can somebody post a file list in pastebin, or a screengrab of the folder? dont know if want.

Mirrored to RS if that's your thing:

http://rapidshare.com/files/382144840/Books_A-B.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/382145455/Books_C-E.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/382145299/Books_F-I.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/382146274/Books_J-L.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/382145578/Books_M-Q.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/382146198/Books_R-V.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/382146045/Books_W-Z.rar

You SHALL stay on page one!

Is there any way to extract multiple rars at once?

>>618003
jdownloader

>>618003
winrar

*cough*

http://pastebin.com/TAqXmx6E

^ A list of every book in here.

NOTE that I have added a handful (~3-4 only) since then. The only ones I remember adding are one of the Tom Clancy ones and Follett's Pillars of the Earth.

>>618588
Bump 'cause I think noone actually saw that

>>618634
i did. many thanks kind anon

Can someone please go to 7chan's /lit/ and post these links in the "Post some goddam books" thread and then tell them "This thread is now obsolete".
They banned me for coming from 4chan:
>>your lack of a complete hate for b0xxy gave you away
Yeah, fuck you.

>>618842
Please?

Last time I tried opening a jpg as a rar I couldn't. I changed the extension from Jpg to Rar but it still wouldn't open properly.

I'm on a mac. Anyone done this successfully on a mac?

>>618926
b00mp

>>618842
Anyone?

>>618926
yes

>>618926
download UnrarX, voila

>>618842
Posted the links.

>>619258
Thank you! I swear, 7chan are so paranoid about us "niggertitsians", it's ridiculous. They're like the teenager who rages against his parents and has a hissy-fit all of the time.
Plus they equate /b/ with all of 4chan- I'm a /lit/ man only.

>Pynchon, Thomas - Gravity's Rainbow could not be extracted as it is corrupted

NOOOOOOOO

>>619274
That one works for me. It has an .html copy and a .pdf copy.

http://www.mediafire.com/?xzdmnlwmezc

^ Gravity's Rainbow, .pdf

>>619274
>Implying anyone actually likes the book for its content, and not the street cred

>>619265
>>619265
D'aww
they kicked you out but you still made sure they got links :)

>>619293
I couldn't let OP go to all of that trouble and not spread the word.

Looks like this thread is getting archived. Awesome job OP.

Thanks, again. I'm just happy to see several hundred people downloaded it in the first week. I'll include the file list from the start in future posts.

OP, your collection will be the beginnings of a digital archive for the Glorious Nation of Anononia.

Be proud, my son.

>>619543
You have presented a strange and frightening, yet rather exciting idea.

>>619627
INORITE???
:3

>Hey, didn't I see this thread about a week ago?

>Check date

>OP's post: Monday, 4/26/10

>>619638
Nobody's sticky'd the bastard yet.

7 actives downloads (56 minutes remaining)

I know this is 4chan, but maybe we should create a /lit/ book repository? Using a shared 4Shared account, or any better website, maybe?

>>619662I think there used to be one. In fact, we used to be able to upload .rars in .jpgs.

>>619662
>>619749
Something like this?
http://rs.4chan.org/?s=&;from=%2Flit%2F

I think OP just ordered and cleaned up the archives anyway.

This thread is good and you should feel good.

>>619767
That is what I did, the old archive on rapidshit was terrible, I downloaded it a while back but never read anything from it because searching was difficult

Sticky please~

And another bump.

Pls sticky already.

YASR!

(Yet Another Sticky Request)

I hate to be greedy, but I was just going to .rar/unzip all of these straight to my e-reader in one fell swoop. Tool for changing the extension of lots and lots of files all at once?

>>621717
msdos

We REALLY need someone to go and quality control these. They should ALL be in pdf format.

>>621741
Very likely.
But for the truly lazy;
http://www.brothersoft.com/extension-renamer-download-41537.html

>>621744
It would take an astronomically long time to find .pdfs of every single book here. I tried to quality-control as best I could as far as looking for "dead" archives, but there's no way in hell I have enough time to download this many ebooks one at a time in .pdf format only. Besides, other people might prefer other formats.

I did try to include every different format that I could when I had more than one of the same book, I only got rid of duplicates. So a bunch of these archives has the same book but in various formats.

>>621717

Copy paste this into a text file and change its extension to .bat:

Ren *jpg *rar

>>621758


You can easily change almost any of these formats into pdf. I think I will do that and repost some links.

>>621768
I would advise against it. PDFs suck for most ereaders and automatic text->pdf conversion doesn't gain you anything.

>>621824


What E-reader are you talking about? My nook handles pdfs just as well as Epubs

someone put them all together in a torrent

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i once found a torrent of 8 gigs worth of fantasy and sci-fi and it took me three days to DL, it was all in PDF, they can get big, how about cbr? i know its odd, but the transition from jpg to cbr is alot easier

>>621744
PDF sucks- epub ftw

>>621835
>nook is the only ereader

Look, I'm not taking the time to convert them all to ANY format because no matter what format I change them to, there will be someone saying that another format is better. Additionally, conversion has the possibility of causing formatting errors and other crap. I left them in whatever format they were already in.

IF YOU WANT THEM ALL IN ONE FORMAT:
-Extract every book (or just, you know, the books you want)
-Convert them in Calibre
-???
-Profit.

>>621835
Does it reformat the layout? From what I hear almost none of them do, and on 5" or 6" screens it's frustrating to read due to either the tiny font or the panning required.

>>621904
I'm pretty sure everyone can handle epub, but I agree there's no point in doing conversions--you're only going to lose information.

>>622000
Yeah, every ereader can handle epub, but I'm not sure if Windows itself can without downloading more stuff, and some people might be reading this on a computer and would then have to convert it -again.-

missing jim butcher books:
dresden files 10, 11, 12
codex alera 4, 5, 6

so i put them all together in here for you, if you want them
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5RBA7ZIW

I'll bump this even though I hate e-books.

ty <3

>>622023
Yeah, that's the weird bit. It's like the good reader formats are too middle-of-the-road for computer apps. Even Okular with it's multitude of backends doesn't know what epub is.

I used to prefer pdf, but now it's the worst format for me. Since my reader likes epub, txt, rtf, mobi, etc. I can easily convert from doc, lit, etc without the layout getting in the way--just about anything but pdf, and certainly everything that is common.

>>621856
CBR is just a zip with different extension. When I get a cbr-based comic I just rename it to *.zip and extract the files.

>>619767
No, I mean something organized like OP did. Maybe even more:
-- Folders with first letter of author's last name
---- Folders with author's full name
------ If single book, book goes here;
------ If it's part of a series or collection, folder with series name
-------- Book goes here, name starting with the number in the series

I think it's just a matter of finding the right website to handle this and sharing the login info. This way anyone could add more books or upload better versions.

Nothing in the U folder?

>>622253
No, and one or two others. I kept it in for consistency's sake and to prevent people asking where the folder was.

>>600240
you rock!

>>622166
Would anon like it if the next version of this archive had subfolders by author name?

If so, should I strip author name and such from the filenames?

>>622490
It's not a big deal to me, but if you do, removing the author names is not a bad idea.

While you're at it, I suggest fixing attributions. Some of them are messed up as indicated by a few posts in the thread.

>>622674
I've been trying to fix errors as they're pointed out.

My thinking is, it's best while it's sorted to remove the author names, but if you send any unsorted it starts to get messy again, so it's possibly best to just leave them in even if they're in sorted subfolders, since the filenames don't really hurt anything.

And another bump.
Another sticky request.

Thanks OP

Now this thread won't bump anymore...

Someone email moot and get him to sticky this.

just make a fucking torrent please..

>>623446
I'm just gonna post it again...

I am on a college campus. I cannot and will not seed a torrent. What's wrong with direct download?

Can't believe mods haven't sticky'd this thread yet?
Can someone out there give me a definite answer yes or no?

you know, some guy who isn't OP and isn't on a college campus could also just download them and start a torrent

not it

hmm

no mods on /lit/

good job, bump

The bible in the Anonymous/Multiple Authors/ folder is a text file with "Mods Are Fags" pasted 100 times. Someone fix that shit.

>>624253
Why? It's still better than the actual content.

>>624278
>HUR DUR I'M AN ICONOCLASTIC HIPSTER

The holy bible has literary significance. The poetic Elizabethan language of the King James version is enough reason to read it.

>>624278
>Herp durp,
grow up.

bumping

shticky

>>623836
I think the collection needs a bit more revision before that happens. I can't do it very well anyway because I can't access all the files.

badump

Keep on bumping

>>626471
You know we're close to the bump limit now right. Might want to lay off a bit, just enough to keep it alive.