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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
This was irresponsible. People have gone to great lengths to keep the contents of this book a secret, not least J.K.Rowling, and now you've just told an entire online community how to circumvent that, as well as leaking passages from the book.
I hope you're proud of yourselves.
...but I apparently don't read them for their grammar.
Yes, I had noticed that too and I’ve been thinking about it way too much since. At the very least there should be a ‘spoiler warning’ at the TOP of the article (not hidden in the very paragraph we should be avoiding).
For now I’m just trying to forget so the story can unfold for me the way the author intended. You only get one first read and I guess we’re all going to have to be mega protective of this one.
First let me preface this by saying this post contains NO spoilers. It is safe to read!
Surely by now the morons who get their kicks by making people upset on the interwebs are spamming message boards and blog comments with the supposed details of the leaked Epilogue. They are only doing this to upset you.
The answer is: don't get upset. The truth is, until your eyes cross the pages of the book on Saturday, you have no idea if what they are writing is true or not. I could throw darts at names on a board and have a good shot at accidentally predicting who lives and dies. If you come across or hear something, just take a deep breath and repeat the mantra: "until those pages my eyes do see, I do not know anything!"
Googling around a bit turns up a number of these "books". Many of them are actually fan fiction, printed and bound to look like the real book. I haven't been able to ascertain if this particular one is real or not, but based on the number of fakes, odds are it's just another convincing piece of fan fiction.
OMG!Was I the only one to flip out to discover that Harmoine is a dude?! I never trusted Colbert, but this time he was dead on!
He writes that "all you have to do is nothing" if you don;t want to know what happens.
Great. What a keen insight into the psychology of human curiosity.
Farhad: Don't think of a white bear!
this is a kids book, wtf dont you read some adult literature? yeah the author of the article is probably going to get salon sued, but its insane that grown adults are worried they might accidentally read some spoiler for a kids book.
Simply have Farhad Manjoo tell you the name of websites where we can go and the procedures we can thereupon use to download music we'd otherwise have to pay for. Farhad: I really want the new Smashing Pumpkins cd but I don't want to pay for it. What's a good site?
That's all. Bye.
But i'm already on chapter five... and lovin' it! 'Course, I'll still buy the book when I can, since the photos are a BEAR to read (fuzzy, out-of-focus) but HELL! This be some yummy forbidden fruit.
Signed,
I Has A Bootleg Harry Potter Book/Nooo They Be Stealin' My Bootleg Harry Potter Book
I work in a library and have also seen multiple scans of book 7 on the internet. These scans appear to be library copies of the book. The dust jackets of a sheen to them which indicates that they have been cloth protected and from past experience there seems to be no limit on what libraries do when they get the Harry Potter books. Bookstores and large libraries receive there copies at about the same time. However, bookstores deal with profits and want to keep momentum building until the day of release. They also suffer deep penalties from book publishers from breaking street dates and Harry Pooter books are, of course, no exception. I have worked in libraries for the last two Harry Potter books and from my experience and the experience of my friends around the country libraries will adhere to the street date, but this does not stop them from opening the boxes early to prep them for checkout. Some libraries even let employees read the books without checking them out. This is unfortunate and something I beleive leads to the best path to leaking the books early. I have been amazed that Scholastic has not held back on offering large libraries to receive their shipments until after the street date for something they try so desperatley to protect.
Maybe this is a fraud. That would be pretty funny. I admit it's hard to imagine somebody faking an entire 700+ page novel, but I remember a news story about Harry Potter knock-offs being published in Russia. Rowling is not the only one who can write books of this size; she's just one of the few who manage to get them published.
If it's not a complete fraud, there is no reason to assume it's the final copy or that it hasn't been tampered with. Just because it apparently looks like photos of a book doesn't guarantee that it is unaltered photos of the book that will go on sale in a few days.
Eh, it's probably real. I admit I just wanted an excuse to write "Deathly Galley Proofs"
I agree that you didn't do a lot *directly* or *personally*, but that really dodges your real responsibility. The threat of spoilers does not only come from my choice (in this case, choice NOT) to go look at the material myself. It also comes from other people's desire--oblivious or malicious--to go look and then tell me what happens when I am not prepared and don't expect it. That's why I said you may already have done damage.
The "change the channel" argument works with TV censorship. It really doesn't work in a commons dilemma, which is what we have here. I can make all the spoiler-free choices I want, but I'm at the mercy of those who choose otherwise. Reporting news is different from enabling mischief.
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