(No spoilers) Apparently some Harry Potter leaks are genuine

[Morrigoon]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19816389/?GT1=10150

The article does not reveal the ending, but DOES mention numbers of deaths in a listing of conflicting "leaked" endings. No names, but if you don't want anything remotely suggesting anything, then you may want to skip that passage.

Basically, one distributor accidentally send out a few copies, so someone out there has the real thing, and the real thing HAS leaked, but you don't know which of the supposed leaks are real.

In other news, the braille edition will finally be released on the same day as the rest: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19836925/

[Morrigoon]

From National Braille Press' website:

Facts About the Fiction That Is
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The Harry Potter series represents National Braille Press's best-selling books in braille.

National Braille Press has produced nearly 12,000 braille books in the Harry Potter series.

Scholastic and National Braille Press will be partnering for only the second time to release the braille edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at the same time as the print edition.

Sadly, only 1 in 5 blind schoolchildren in the United States uses braille as their primary reading medium; National Braille Press's literacy efforts focus on redressing this issue.

Blind children who receive regular, early instruction in braille have literacy skills equal to their sighted peers.

Braille is a system of six raised dots created in 1821 by French schoolboy Louis Braille. It is the only medium in which blind children can read or write.

A single braille copy of any Harry Potter book will be read by many people. More than sighted readers do, blind readers share or borrow copies of favorite books from braille lending libraries in each state run by the Library of Congress.

National Braille Press's version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will run approximately 1,100 braille pages; be packaged in ten volumes standing more than a foot high; occupy 15 inches of shelf space; and weigh approximately 12 pounds. To transcribe, proof, emboss, collate, and ship the braille edition will take approximately three weeks.

The braille edition can be pre-ordered from National Braille Press at the same discounted rate that Amazon offers sighted readers - $18.89 - until the release of the book on July 21. After that, the braille edition will sell for the same retail price of $34.99 as the print edition.

To produce the braille version costs about $50/book, approximately two times as much as Scholastic's print version. However, National Braille Press's policy is to charge blind readers the same prices paid by sighted readers. Donations to National Braille Press by loyal supporters make up the difference.

This year a team of blind children, calling themselves the Walking Wizards, will be helping us raise the nearly $53,000 needed to produce the braille edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by walking in the Vision 5K held in Boston on June 2nd. Support their efforts here.

[Chernabog]

Talk about being whipped up into a frenzy over this!! I'm feeling anxiety and I'm not even all that into Harry Potter! I'm sure I'll borrow someone's copy in a week or two when they're done with it.

[innerSpaceman]

I'm not a fast reader, and I'm concerned over being spoilt before I finish the book (or, pffft, perhaps before I even start it).




Meanwhile, talk about frenzy ---- this is now the 4th Harry Potter thread on the LoT.

[€uroMeinke]

I'm tempted to go out and wander the deserted streets as the nation huddles around their personal copies of HP - just to get that old sci-fi apocalypse feeling.

[Not Afraid]

Oooooh! That's a great idea! Where can we go that we normally wouldn't go because it is too busy?

[CoasterMatt]

This might be filed under a different sort of Harry Potter "leak"

NSFW - Animated Gif

[Not Afraid]

Who is that?

[€uroMeinke]

Is she supposed to be peeing?

[Morrigoon]

I actually hated that dress. She needs a stylist.