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I doubt that a blog posting will actually help anyone out there (I wonder whether anyone who reads this actually gets the LA times?), but I'm shaking my head in disbelief enough that I have to share. The LA Times printed a story today on the leak of page by page photos of the final Harry Potter book, and the print edition was accompanied by a legible photo of the final page! (Or at least, I assume it's the final page: the caption says that it shows "pages of the epilogue", and the text on the right-hand page ends well before the bottom margin.) Those who are worried about spoilers might want to avoid page A17 of the paper; all you're missing is the continuation of the front page article entitled "Grocery pact improves waves, health benefits" and a little article entitled "Miers holds firm on not testifying, lawyer says" (no loss there: that's hardly a surprise).
When I saw the picture, I had trouble actually believing that a major newspaper would do such a ridiculous thing. I told myself, "Maybe they've blurred it or something so it's not legible." Then I tried to steal a glance, just enough to see whether that was true without actually reading enough to be spoiled. It wasn't true. And I seem to have failed (despite looking away immediately after reading just a couple of words). Curse you, LA Times! I'm not a Harry Potter fanatic, but I do my best to avoid spoilers for things that interest me much less than this! I can imagine a lot of people getting really upset with them about this.
When I saw the picture, I had trouble actually believing that a major newspaper would do such a ridiculous thing. I told myself, "Maybe they've blurred it or something so it's not legible." Then I tried to steal a glance, just enough to see whether that was true without actually reading enough to be spoiled. It wasn't true. And I seem to have failed (despite looking away immediately after reading just a couple of words). Curse you, LA Times! I'm not a Harry Potter fanatic, but I do my best to avoid spoilers for things that interest me much less than this! I can imagine a lot of people getting really upset with them about this.
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I did not even come close to encountering any spoilers, because the types of authors I choose to read are those who would not spoil. There's much to be said for the modern RSS world where I get to choose exactly which authors I wish to have filter my news. No newspaper can assemble even remotely near as good a match for my reading interests as I can. Who wants to consume the bundle of stories & authors that the LA Times editors have chosen for the masses?
K, I'll stop ranting...I guess I've drunk too much Web 2.0 Koolaid :).