# How do you keep reading Manning's books? **URL:** \ **Category:** Discussion & Solutions\ **Tags:** solved\ **Created:** [June 10, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-do-you-keep-reading-mannings-books/91222 "2020-06-10T17:03:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MikeBlueberry](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/mikeblueberry/32/34516_2.png) [@MikeBlueberry](https://onehack.st/u/MikeBlueberry)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-do-you-keep-reading-mannings-books/91222/1 "2020-06-10T17:03:58Z")
You probably heard about `Manning.com` books. It’s a publisher focusing on books about programming, machine learning, etc. They have this feature called ‘LiveBook’, in which you can read one of their books online for free, for 5 minutes. In those 5 minutes, the text gets un-scrambled as you scroll down. After the 5 minutes are up, it becomes scrambled. Here’s an example, go [read this book](https://livebook.manning.com/book/build-your-career-in-data-science/chapter-3/98). After 5 minutes it’s all gibberish. Is there a way to hack into this so we can read these books anytime you want? ![](https://lookimg.com/images/2020/06/10/PA9T4n.png) 👉 Note: Books in the “MEAP” early access stage are free to read while they’re being written. What I’m talking about here is being able to read books already completed and published. ---
**Author:** ![Crappy\_Programmer](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/crappy_programmer/32/38069_2.png) [@Crappy\_Programmer](https://onehack.st/u/Crappy_Programmer)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 9:15pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-do-you-keep-reading-mannings-books/91222/2 "2020-06-10T21:15:16Z")
Looks like a fun and interesting little challenge. I’ll post here if I can get something done in my spare time. ---
**Author:** ![dsonigladiator](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/dsonigladiator/32/43033_2.png) [@dsonigladiator](https://onehack.st/u/dsonigladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-do-you-keep-reading-mannings-books/91222/3 "2020-06-10T23:02:06Z")
Tbh, I’d suggest try searching the books you need on LibGen or Z-Library, download them and read it offline. This will serve your purpose. If some book is not available on both these websites, try _ **index of** _ method on google or some other websites. ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Oladele](https://onehack.st/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Steven\_Oladele](https://onehack.st/u/Steven_Oladele)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-do-you-keep-reading-mannings-books/91222/5 "2020-06-11T04:53:11Z")
Hi, thanks for this. Can you explain the “index” method? For clarity. ---
**Author:** ![d3m1g0d](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/d3m1g0d/32/24102_2.png) [@d3m1g0d](https://onehack.st/u/d3m1g0d)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 6:15am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-do-you-keep-reading-mannings-books/91222/6 "2020-06-11T06:15:29Z")
> [@Finding Any Ebook Using Index Search (Hidden Trick) 100](https://onehack.st/t/finding-any-ebook-using-index-search-hidden-trick/59913): > > Basically use this in google (ugh, gonna get some hate for saying that ain’t I?) -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" +("/ebooks"|"/book") +(chm|pdf|zip) +"BookName" Replace BookName with the title of the ebook, you’ll find FTP servers hosting said file, should get a hit in the first site or two. EXAMPLE: \*\*-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:“index of” +("/ebooks"|"/book") +(chm|pdf|zip) +" \*Scary stories\* "\*\* You get any format or file by changing ‘‘epub’’ to mobi, pdf, and all other ext… ---
**Author:** ![DavidOrGoliat](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/davidorgoliat/32/18098_2.png) [@DavidOrGoliat](https://onehack.st/u/DavidOrGoliat)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-do-you-keep-reading-mannings-books/91222/4 "2020-06-11T00:15:36Z")
try adding a single dot at the end of your domain name .com. ---
**Author:** ![MikeBlueberry](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/mikeblueberry/32/34516_2.png) [@MikeBlueberry](https://onehack.st/u/MikeBlueberry)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-do-you-keep-reading-mannings-books/91222/7 "2020-06-11T10:06:49Z")
[dsonigladiator](https://onehack.st/u/dsonigladiator), [d3m1g0d](https://onehack.st/u/d3m1g0d), [DavidOrGoliat](https://onehack.st/u/DavidOrGoliat), I know, you can get almost any book by going to [b-ok.cc](https://b-ok.cc/) or [1lib.eu](https://1lib.eu/). Those books are there. But reading these books online with their ‘LiveBook’ is so much better. You can underline, save notes, and the reading experience is also better. Hopefully [Crappy\_Programmer](https://onehack.st/u/Crappy_Programmer) can get around this? ---
**Author:** ![dsonigladiator](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/dsonigladiator/32/43033_2.png) [@dsonigladiator](https://onehack.st/u/dsonigladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 10:59pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-do-you-keep-reading-mannings-books/91222/8 "2020-06-15T22:59:18Z")
@MikeBlueberry Yeah that’s there. Even I personally love the features you mentioned. Just a small tip - I personally use foxit phantom pdf pro to read the pdf version of any book, it has many good features such as adding comments/notes, and highlighting text using many different colors, and you can underline stuff too. That helps me a lot…