Harry Potter Fans Transcribe Book from Photos
Written by Smaran on July 18, 2007A 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 harry7pottah@hush.com 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.
update: chapters 11-21 are transcribed.
update: all chapters are transcribed.
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are we allowed to link to it?
link it!
How is the transcribing coming?
Here a hint to where to find it:
1. Go to ThePirateBay.com
2. Type in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”
3. Done
[quote comment="134340"]How is the transcribing coming?[/quote]
So far the fist 10 Chapters are released as a readable .pdf
mininova id 797804
[quote comment="134353"]mininova id 797804[/quote]
or tpb id 3745494
Weird.. I downloaded the entire book yesterday.
Who gives a shit?
This has got to be one of the dumbest ideas I have seen in a long while.
haha.
its true. the entire photo rip of the book is available. just looking for the 10 chaps now. thx for the tip.
btw, anyone sure of its accuracy?
Ron dies… meh.
Sounds like fun… think of it like a giant captcha project.
Just had to get the dig at Mac users in there, didn’t you?
Y’know, there’s no shame in admitting that you’re curious. Just go down to the local Apple store and give one a try. No one will judge you harshly. Go on, you know you want to.
(I’ve just spent the past few hours installing XP and essentially “begging” Microsoft to allow me to use my own license, as the copy has been activated “too many times” [it’s a goddamn 5 year old CD… of course I’ve installed it before!)
http://tinyurl.com/2d9rof
That’s a direct link to a pdf version of chapters 1-10
Didnt want the science project of reading 800 pages… Who dies already!?
dumbuldore is going to come from the death and is going to kill snape
and later they are going to found out that snape was inocent
Its in the book
what is the link
if u have the pics or the script or W/E add me and send
tajan3@hotmail.com
THnx
Were pushing to release ASAP, the book is being worked on constantly.
Well looks like whoever took those pictures are about to get a visit:
http://aycu22.webshots.com/image/21181/2000494333947614667_rs.jpg
Unless he/she stole the camera too :O
hahah, how would they track a camera down with it’s sn? i don’t know too many people that register their equipment.
[quote comment="134502"]Well looks like whoever took those pictures are about to get a visit:
http://aycu22.webshots.com/image/21181/2000494333947614667_rs.jpg
Unless he/she stole the camera too :O[/quote]
Hey jackz5o,
What program are you using to pull up that exif data in the screenshot?
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