Kindle! Dari Beli Kindle di Indonesia Sampai Dapetin Bukunya dengan Gratis

Saya sukaa banget baca novel. Koleksi jaman sekolah bahkan udah ga muat lagi ditaruh di rak buku. Setelah sekian lama menggeluti hobi ini akhirnya tertarik buat beli Kindle. Kenapa? Soalnya setelah coba punya temen, ngerasa enak banget buat baca, udah kayak baca buku aslinya. Ga seperti baca di tablet atau smartphone, baca di Kindle ga bikin capek. Versi terbaru juga udah ada lampu built in nya, jadi bisa dibaca dimana pun dan kapan pun. Bisa nyimpan ribuan buku dalam satu device, baterai tahan berminggu-minggu. Dapetin e-book nya pun mudah. Ga ada lagi jauh-jauh ke periplus ataupun kinokuniya, terus ngerogoh kocek dalam2 cuma buat beli buku impor.

Banyak alternatif untuk dapetin Kindle. Bisa beli langsung di website resminya, beli di online store, ataupun beli di toko yang menjual e-book reader. Beli Kindle di website resminya memang jauh lebih murah (cuma sejutaan), tapi ongkir kesini kan mahal, juga bisa kena bea cukai yang lumayan besar (yang bisa jadi totalnya lebih mahal daripada harga di toko2 biasa). Karena Kindle ini ga ada distributor resminya di Indonesia, makanya harga di toko jadi mahal, selisih dengan harga resminya sampai lebih dari satu juta. Namun karena kepraktisan, saya pilih beli di toko. Langsung pegang barangnya dan yakin akan kualitas barang yang dibeli.

Saya beli Kindle di Bandung, tepatnya di Origik Store (Baltos lt1). Teman saya sudah pernah beli disini secara online, jadi sudah terpercaya. Lagipula kebetulan waktu itu saya sedang di Bandung. Kindle Paperwhite 2  Ads di bulan Maret 2015 harganya 2,3 juta, ditambah case 300ribu. Saya rasa harganya wajar. Kalau googling, di beberapa toko online bahkan menjual dengan harga lebih mahal.

Gimana dengan versi non Ads? Ga jauh beda kok kalau jarang konek wifi. Dengan harga yang 300ribuan lebih mahal, non Ads bakal kerasa kalau kamu biasa pakai akun amazon buat beli bukunya secara legal karena ga akan muncul iklan. Tapi kalau wifi selalu off, list buku rekomendasi tinggal dimatikan dan Kindle Ads bisa bekerja tanpa gangguan iklan. Memang fitur2 seperti goodreads maupun sinkronisasi akun jadi mati, tapi toh saya ga butuh itu (karena ga beli buku aslinya, hehe)

Setelah punya Kindle, gimana ngisinya?
Seharusnya memang konekin wifi dan beli bukunya di amazon. Tapi kamu perlu kartu kredit dan alamat US... repot kan? Kadang waktu beli, penjualnya bakal ngasih bonus DVD yang isinya kumpulan e-book. Tapi kalau ga dapet, mau cari e-book yang gratis gimana caranya?

Kali ini saya akan sharing mengenai cara cari e-book gratis menggunakan mIRC. Mudah dan ga perlu sign up macam2.

• Pertama, download dan install Calibre. Freeware kok. Software ini dipakai untuk manajemen e-book yang kamu punya. Dari berbagai file yang tersebar di harddisk akan disatukan dan disortir berdasarkan penulisnya. Waktu install, setting dulu sesuai device yang kamu punya (misal dalam kasus saya, Kindle Paperwhite). Saat Kindle connect ke komputer, Calibre akan langsung detect, dan bisa tau buku mana aja yang udah masuk ke device dan mana yang belum. Tinggal Send to Device dan bisa sekalian di convert ke file yang support dengan e-book reader nya.
  
• Download dan install mIRC. Jadul banget ya? Tapi buat nyari e-book gratis cukup powerful loh... Buku apa pun ada, download nya pun mudah. File e-book kan kecil, jadi males banget kalau download lewat file hosting yang harus melewati banyak step yang kadang tiada berujung.
  
• Pilih server Undernet, klik connect (logo petir di kiri atas), lalu masuk ke room #bookz.
  
• Setelah itu setting untuk download otomatis. Pilih menu Tools, Options, Pilih DCC, centang Auto-get file. Dengan ini, kalau lagi unduh banyak buku, ga perlu lagi accept satu-satu. Karena kadang buat download perlu antri, kalau otomatis kan bisa ditinggal. Takut virus ikut ter-unduh? Bisa pilih opsi Ignore di dalam DCC, pilih accept only, masukin file2 yang dibutuhin aja (zip, rar, 7zip, epub, mobi, pdf). 
  
• Buat nyari e-book, masukkan @search [nama penulis atau judul buku yang ingin dicari] di dalem room. Contoh @search paulo coelho. Nanti akan ada file yang isinya daftar nama yang sesuai (di dalam file zip SearchOok), cari aja file yang diinginkan dengan ctrl+f, copy, paste di room. Nanti akan ke-download otomatis. Kadang ada juga bot yang ngirimin alamatnya di chat private, kalau cocok dan males buka file hasil search, bisa juga copy dari situ. Copy diawali dari tanda seru dan diakhiri nama ekstensi file.
  
  
  
  
• File yang enak dibaca di kindle itu azw, epub, atau mobi, karena support freeflow. Jadi tulisan bisa diperbesar atau diperkecil dan akan menyesuaikan dengan ukuran layar. Ga perlu repot pinch zoom in zoom out kayak buka pdf. Tulisannya juga lebih muda dibaca dan support highlight maupun dictionary.

Selamat mencoba!

Hello World!

I made 3 posts so far and i haven't introduce myself. Hello again! I'm an engineer student at a national university in Indonesia. Now i'm in 10th semester, which is so tough for me because this must be the last semester in pursuing my undergraduate degree.

I'm currently living in Yogyakarta (Jogja), a nice and colorful city with its vibrant javanese culture. People consider Jogja as the center of javanese culture. It may be true, because here, tradition is well-maintained and still be practiced until now, probably because the kingdom of Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat is still exist and has big influence in the people's life in Jogja. There are also many culture center and culture studies, and many spots where you can find and learn more about javanese culture. It near Solo, another javanese kingdom (it used to be one kingdom, though) another culture center and the place where you can find a true form of javanese language. And it close to some of world heritage like Candi Prambanan and Candi Borobudur. Jogja has many beautiful places like its beaches with white sand and crystal clear water in the south, caves, rocky hills, mountains (especially merapi in the north as its icon and some mountains in surrounding)... everything about nature wonders you can expect. This is the last year of my studies, and it is between happy and sad to leave Jogja.

Why do I make this blog?
Well... previously I had made some blogs, but I kept ruining it. I posted some rubbish posts and recently I regretted it, because i had my profile there. My friends or everybody knowing me in the real life is those who access it and I feel uncomfortable. So I deleted all of my earlier blogs and made a new one, here. Beside, lately I had some uneasiness about my problems and I want to make a whole new life (at least a new place to put my life in virtual).

Why you write in english? Look at your grammar!
I'm a true Indonesian. A pure strain. My parents are javanese, so do my great parents and great great parents. I live in an ordinary Indonesian family who are happy enough living in this land, and never think to live abroad. Until now, I never go to another country, and altough Indonesia has tens of thousand of islands, i just visited three; Java, Bali, and Nusakambangan. Pretty poor, huh?
I want to see different life outside the world i be familiar with, and take lessons from it. Starts from here, i want to make journey to a life  that will expand our view and thinking, so we can developed and be a better person.
I want my blog to be read and to be understand (roughly) by every people in this world, because english is a universal language. I don't usually write in english. Perhaps there are many mistakes in grammar or wrong verb, but I will practice to make my english better. You can freely tell me the mistakes and I will correct it.

That's all, may you enjoy this blog. Thanks!

Who Doesn't Love Ice Cream?

The cold and refreshing ice cream, less cream is better. I prefer those "es potong" than the full creamy cream ice cream that will make your throat uncomfortable and absolutely make you fat. So I chose wall's feast rather than magnum. Okay that's the same company but this is the cheaper version and "more me" version.

Jogja is hotter and hotter nowadays... I want to escape right away and definitely will make my new life in a cooler place!!

Use Your Time Wisely, Please!!

My dad kept telling me not to leave the important thing after unimportant one. But I always do the unimportant thing first. Oh well... You have to be more wise at using time.... Everything that has passed would never come back...

First Post

It's over midnight and I'm not sleeping yet. Many things are spinning in my mind, my thesis' progress almost nothing and I don't know what to present to my professor tomorrow. In the end of month I will be 23 and I'm not graduating yet. What about my thesis? Why am I so slow? Oh my....

I hope tomorrow's gonna be far better. Time to sleep and pause for a while...