搜书神器 v2: E-Book Search Bot

Hunting for a Chinese e-book from a scrap of a title or a hero's name can be painful. 搜书神器 v2 (roughly "magic book search tool") takes that job on right inside Telegram. The interface is fully in Chinese, which is worth knowing in advance. 📚

The bot calls itself free, permanently free. According to its description, the goal is for readers to freely obtain knowledge and share good books.

Two commands instead of ten filters

The bot rests on two kinds of search. You send a command and a keyword, and the bot replies with matching books.

• /s and a word. Search by book title or author name.
• /ss and a tag. Search by main character or a tag, such as a genre.
• /help. A beginner help screen if you get lost.

For example, /s plus a novel's title shows a list of matches with file formats. 🔎

What else is inside

The bot is more than a search line. The menu has sections that make it feel like a small library:

1. /book. Browse the book collection.
2. /booklist. Themed selections and lists.
3. /review. Reader reviews and recommendations.
4. /info. Collection statistics and progress of new uploads.
5. /my. Your personal page.
6. /topuser. A ranking of active users.

There is also a daily /checkin that grants coins, and the settings let you tune the bot to your needs.

Using it without knowing Chinese

The interface is Chinese, but you can build searches in Latin letters or in Russian if the book has such a title. A phone translator helps you read the menu.

Everything works through commands, so remembering /s and /ss is enough. If you get stuck, /cancel resets the current action. 🧭

Who fills the library

Users themselves grow the collection: you can send the bot a book file and it adds it to the database. So the library depends on readers and keeps changing.

That also means something important: some material may infringe copyright. Download only what you have the right to read and follow the laws of your country.

Beware of lookalikes

Around popular book bots, paid chats and "official" doubles appear. The project's authors say the bot runs independently and has no link to paid groups.

• Open the bot only by its exact name.
• Do not pay middlemen for "access."
• Do not send files with personal data to the shared collection.

Scan downloaded files with antivirus software. ⚠️

Who it suits

Readers of Chinese literature, web novels and textbooks who need fast search by tags and heroes. Language learners who need books for practice. 🀄

For everyone else the bot is less convenient because of the language, but as an example of a search library on Telegram it is interesting.