Only couple hours after being launched today, the most anticipated seventh and final chapter of Harry Potter saga, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” has been scanned and scattered all over the net. No, it’s not the first-100-pages version that have been leaked several days ago. It’s the full, real version of the book. Those who can’t wait to purchase the book can download it from Torrent if they want. I do have all six Harry Potter books, so I definitely buy the book instead. Afterall, it’s worth collected, right?

A little preview of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows book from Amazon:

Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort’s remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leave the warmth, safety , and companionship of The Burrow and follow without fear or hesitation the inexorable path laid out for him?

In this final, seventh installment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectactular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited. The spellbinding, richly woven narrative, which plunges, twists and turns at a breathtaking pace, confirms the author as a mistress of storytelling, whose books will be read, reread and read again.

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J.K Rowling, the author of the famous Harry Potter stories, has just announced “Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows”, the 7th and the final chapter on the series. The book is planned to hit the store in July, however, if you still want to get it first before your friends without having to wait in front of the store for hours on the release date, you can simply pre-order it now from Amazon (link after the jump). This online store sells two version of the books, Standard and Deluxe.

Note that at the moment, you can only pre-order Harry Potter and The Deadly Hallows from the link below as the book hasn’t appear on Amazon catalog list yet.

[ Standard Edition ] [ Deluxe Edition ]

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• Go into Google Print and enter the book you’re looking for on the Search Box. Let’s try searching for Dan Brown’s best seller book, The Da Vinci Code.

  

• Check the result. Unfortunately, the book doesn’t exist on Google :p So let’s click on the De-Coding Da Vinci: The Facts Behind the Fiction of The Da Vinci Code instead.

  

• You’ll see the first page of the book (content page usually). Take a good look at the Search Within Result box on the left.

  

  Now, to move to any page on the book, all you have to is enter the page you want on that search box. For example, we’re going to move on to page 43.

  

• Here you go. On the search result, the page 43 will appear. Just click on it.
  

  and here comes the page we’re looking for )

  

But of course, having the real book is more exciting than just reading through the web )

It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind. He was waiting for a call from the President of a far distant country, and between wondering when the wretched man would telephone, and trying to suppress unpleasant memories of what had been a very long, tiring, and difficult week, there was not much space in his head for anything else.

That’s the opening of the 1st chapter of the latest Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. No, I haven’t bought this 6th Harry Potter’s book yet, instead, I got the pirated E-Book version. This e-book is first posted by someone on Chinesse’ bulletin board. The Chinesse pirate probably used OCR software to convert the book into digital format. Later, another person on IRC’s group also released the e-book version of this Harry Potter book, but with more accurate convertion than the Chinesse pirated version.

From LiewCF’s blog:

BEIJING (Hollywood Reporter) – Less than 24 hours after the English edition of the latest Harry Potter book went on sale in China’s capital on the weekend, the full text of the 672-page tome was available for free on the Internet as an unauthorized e-book, the Beijing News reported on Wednesday.

The Shui Mu Tsing Hua bulletin board service posted the full text of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” on Sunday, according to the Chinese language daily.

Those pirates offer several formats for the Harry Potteer and the Half-Blood Prince book. From txt, DOC, to PDF. Don’t forget, they also don’t charge anything for it. It’s totally free…

Will I buy this J.K Rowling’s book after I read the e-book? Yes, I will. Maybe not now because the price is still way too expensive for me. I’ll probably get the Indonesian version, since the other 5 Harry Potter’s books I owned are Indonesian translated version. Oh, and it’s also cheaper than the original versiom )

Updated (October 11th, 2005): You can download the eBook here.
Updated (December 13rd, 2005): eBook download link has been removed.