Amplify Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 by SmaranA group of Harry Potter fans are collectively typing out “Deathly Hallows”, the final episode in the Harry Potter series, from photographs leaked of each page in the book.A torrent containing a text PDF file of the first ten chapters of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” has started to appear on torrent sites all over the web. We first spotted it on mininova, when a reader tipped us off. It has also shown up on several other BitTorrent sites such as The Pirate Bay, whose admins have refused to take down any of the “Deathly Hallows” torrents, despite admirable efforts by J.K. Rowling’s publishers.According to the reader, who chose to remain anonymous, the torrent contains a PDF of the first ten chapters and a text file with a message calling for assistance in transcribing the book from the photos:"We are looking for help in finishing the book. With enough people it goes quickly. Please contact [email protected] to get in contact with us. No skills beyond reading and writing are required and help would be greatly appreciated." It seems rather ludicrous that this is happening mere days before the book’s release. Why bother typing out the entire book from photos when it will hit bookshops all over the world in less than a week? The only plausible reason seems to be a trait of rabid fanboyism only seen among Harry Potter readers and users of Apple’s Macintosh computers.But it looks like some people aren’t even ready to believe the book has actually been leaked! MTV blogger Jennifer Vineyard claims that the book’s a fake:"First of all, there are multiple versions that contradict one another. One table of contents, for instance, calls chapter 10 “Kreacher’s Tale,” while another table of contents calls the same chapter “The Reflection in the Mirror.” "We will only know whether the leaked photographs are photoshopped or not when the book is released a few days from now, but for argument’s sake I’m going to point out that “The Reflection in the Mirror” is the 10th chapter in a fake fan fiction torrent of the book that has been floating around the Internet for days, if not weeks. In the leaked photographs, the 10th chapter is “Kreacher’s Tale”. It looks like the MTV guys have been downloading torrents. For research purposes, of course.Torrent Freak Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 I saw this posted on Newsgroups a few days ago. According to reports, the images are very low quality. The OCR is not very good either, with most of the text very poor quality. Although I'm not interested in this... I thought I'd point this out to anyone who's looking to get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amplify Posted July 18, 2007 Author Share Posted July 18, 2007 I saw this posted on Newsgroups a few days ago. According to reports, the images are very low quality. The OCR is not very good either, with most of the text very poor quality. Although I'm not interested in this... I thought I'd point this out to anyone who's looking to get it.Yes but now fans are making it available in PDF format, as in text, not images so it'll be much more legible, clearer. Just like any other e-book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 Hey I'm only reposting what I saw mentioned already. By all means check it out for yourself... but the only reason I looked at the comments for the NZB posted was because of the unusually high comments amount. Most if not all were complaining that the text was poor quality and the images weren't up to standard either.If the same group / another group release a better document then there shouldn't be any problem :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anteus Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 got it but i dunno if i want to read it... never read harry potter in english :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 got it but i dunno if i want to read it... never read harry potter in english :\I have quite a few "...For Dummies" eBooks if you're after anything worthy of reading. English only though :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anteus Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 post maybe some i can see intresting (hopefully not on Rapid... my premium went out today :)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 Well what I'll do is list a few of them later this evening and ask who wants want. Some of them are under 20MB so this shouldn't be a problem.Don't think I'll use RS in any case as I don't like it very much. There's a couple of other file-hosting sites I use, but any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.Apologies for going off topic here... so I'll finish off by saying that as and when I get a decent copy of HP it'll be available for whoever wants it as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anteus Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 Saw a user here use http://www.verzend.be/ and it maximized my download approx 900kbit/s no wait, I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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