Anybody have any recommendations for public or private trackers for ebooks? Looking mainly for epub files.

  • mrjfilippo@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Agreed. Never had an issue finding anything on zlibrary. Gives you the format you want for whatever device needed.

      • ABCDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        And with Kindles moving to epub shortly, no need to arse around with converting to mobi.

        • Historical_General@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • ABCDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            11 months ago

            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.

          • ABCDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            11 months ago

            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.

            Very odd, so mobi isn’t supported now?

            • GullibleOyster@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              Yeah mobi support got removed earlier this year. Epubs work fine for me though once use calibre to remove the DRM.

            • Historical_General@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              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.

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    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

      • drunkensailor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        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

    • TheWozardOfIzOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • DontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • PanaX@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Also, don’t forget to look at Standard Ebooks for legal, well formatted public domain books. It’s a great site.

  • IgnacioM@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Not a tracker but soulseek is a great place to find books. Its my go to for RPG rulebooks.

  • doublejay1999@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Out of interest, how do you guys read your ebooks ? Tablets ? E-readers ? Laptops ? Just interested to see who does what.

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • drunkensailor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Jck2905English
      2·
      1 year ago

      Boox e-reader. I’m able to just log in to my Calibre web server and download the book right onto my device.

      • Krrygon@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        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

          • illyria817@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            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.