- "I didn't even link to the site where you can get it."

You named the site, which in the Google age is practically the same thing as linking to it. If I told you that I saw an article on 'Salon', how long would it take you to find the site?

The point is that you're an author, with a book coming out next year, who downloaded another author's book, then posted about it on a popular site and told everyone where to find it. So how could you possibly complain next year if someone buys one copy of your book, posts it online, and then everyone else in the world downloads it for free? How would your publisher feel, for that matter?

It's not. So what is it doing here?

VERY lame.

This is........depressing.

The idea of it.

The book comes out in a few DAYS, you great git.

What kind of spaz, to use a childhood insult, does this?

Takes all kinds to make a world, I guess, but I don't understand the spoiler type.

For some reason, the whole thing actually makes me feel sort of sad.

Strange, that.

Hey, I appreciate you guys not wanting to read any of it. But as you'll notice, I didn't post any of it, nor did I give away anything that happens. I didn't even link to the site where you can get it. So there is nothing to take down -- and if you don't want the book spoiled, you're in luck, because all you have to do is nothing.

The author has exposed Salon to zero liability and revealed no spoilers. He simply said where one could get it if one wanted to. Don't look, don't download it. It will be fine. Nothing will be ruined for you if you stop clicking on links regarding the Potter books, 'kay?

I've managed to remain completely oblivious to what occurs in the first book of the series, and it has been readily available for ten years now. But please don't tell me what happens in any of the books! My plan is to wait for all seven movies to come out, and then to watch them back to back to back for the first time on DVD. I will experience seven times the surprise and discovery that the rest of you will!

Hermione dies.

I really expected better from Salon. Please take it down and stop spoiling it for those of us that still appreciate books

Seriously, who's going to download the thing? A few adolescent nerds looking for bragging rights on Digg? How much of a loser would someone have to be to spoil it for themselves?

Do you have any idea what kind of legal trouble to which you've exposed Salon, Manjoo? Do you?? Yeah, didn't think so. I can't believe that this is what passes for journalism here. And tell me, what exactly does this have to do with technology? Please don't tell me it was the book scan. That shit is so 1997.

I've already read the epilogue because I think déjà vu is, like, the best sensation ever!

Let me be the first to confirm that THAT THING THAT YOU, PERSONALLY, WERE WONDERING ABOUT TOTALLY PROBABLY HAPPENED.

And hopefully, when Farhad Manjoo's new book comes out in 2008, someone will post it and we can download that too! I mean, he obviously doesn't mind!

Some of us(weirdos) want to read the book with chocolate in peace.

Oh please please PLEASE don't contribute to this. I'm dying for Friday to arrive, but that's part of the fun. And we don't need more people out there with spoilers. Who knows what damage you've already done, but PLEASE take this down. You're not cool for posting it--Salon is usually cool for playing the game *better* than others.