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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PLEASE SEND ME IT!!!
username6969@hotmail.co.uk
Could you please send me the Pdf to markl19@hotmail.com
cannot access the site from where I am at, it is blocked.
SO that list of capter that have been transcribed, where is that available?
This is an elaborate fake engineered by Mugglenet and Leaky Cauldron with the full knowledge of JKR. The whole thing was preplanned.
There are two releases out there:
DSB - first group to transcribe ALL the photographs
DarkMiasma - transcribed half, and used DSB’s release for the other half of the book, but proofread/formatted it into a “proper” eBook PDF file.
Could anyone send the book to me at lordcarlcifer@googlemail.com please? Thanks in advance :)
Is this a version that transcribes the hard-to-read photos of the book? Can you send it to me?
e.man.69 AT gmail DOT com
I agree that this is a publicity stunt. JKR would have to know that people would be leaking stuff, so my guess is they organized a fake to leak.
And it’s genius, really, because the only way to know for sure is to get the book.
I have seen the images and the style is more reminiscent of fanfic than of JKR. I could totally see a Harry Potter freak coming up with their own version of the last book.
I’ll know in 4 hours!
Hey could someone send me the pdf too please?? tammie_baluch@hotmail.com
Thanks!
Could you please send me the Pdf to charlottev@hotmail.com, thank you!!!!
Doesn’t change the fact that the book is shit: http://hooqs.blogspot.com/2007/07/harry-potter-leak-was-real-book-is.html
Well done, guys. That’s amazing work.
could some one plz send me a coppy of harry potter 7 im noy good wif downloading plz email it to me
[quote comment="135595"]could some one plz send me a coppy of harry potter 7 im not good wif downloading plz email it to me[/quote]
What about chapters 22 onwards?And how do I know this is THE correct version?Has anyone checked the real deal and compared the two versions?
could someone please send me a copy of the book? i pre ordered it but it hasnt come in yet and its driving me crazy. ive been trying to download it all day but it just wont work for me.
ohh and my email is lishajarrett@hotmail.com .. thx
Could someone send me the pdf version of the copy of book 7, I wasn’t able to download. Please send to dmorrighan@hotmail.com
can someone please send all the chapters of harry potter to me? i dont know how to dowload, thanks
georgia (girlgeorgia@hotmail.com)
harry potter is history now. People are likely to forget the hero soon. Unless someone revives the character the effect will soon demise.
can someone plz e-mail me the pdf of HP7 at sidotas@yahoo.co.in thanks in advance
can someone plz e-mail me the pdf of HP7 at bass_jammer16@hotmail.com thanx :)
Anyone who has or know a complete PDF of the 7th book, please let me know the links, and email me @ kuur2petox@yahoo.com
can u send me tho book????
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Peace dudes and dudettes
Could someone mail me a copy of the book, PLEASE. Been having some problems with torrents again. So please mail me a copy of the pdf files at tom206500858@gmail.com
Peace Dudes and Dudettes
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