hbp_chapters Reminder

With one day and some change to go, I'd just like to remind people about hbp_chapters, created for those of us who want to stop at chapter intervals and babble about what's happened so far in the book. To reiterate, you can read any of the posts and comments there that you like, anytime, but should not comment on a chapter's post if you have read further than that chapter--this is to avoid spoilers for those who aren't any further in the book.

Please note that if you look at the main page of hbp_chapters right now, you will see one thing there that very strict purists might consider spoilery: the number of chapters in HBP. I have deleted the extra posts as a source has told me the number.

(Note that the chapter titles aren't listed on the posts and they won't be. I remember how annoyed I was when my eye fell on the name of the last chapter in OotP as I was fumbling past the title pages to the first page of the story. Wouldn't do that to anyone!)

Who needs filters? I have my magazine!

So I'm reading my friendslist and my own personal spoiler shield is this: I have a magazine in one hand and I'm holding it over the left side of the page as I scroll, allowing the username and pic on each post to be visible on the right. And if I trust the user (and think they're likely to have something interesting to say), then I pull back the magazine and look at the entry. My high-tech is pastede on yay.

Now I'm starting to see things about spoiler spamming to communities. Users like ixchelmala have given us a method to filter out all communities by adding "/?show=p" at the end of your friendslist url (It looks like this: " www.livejournal.com/username/friends/?show=p " ), but I think I'll just call a halt on running my friendslist for now. I'll catch up all the way back on Saturday night or Sunday morning, but I already have 87 open browser windows on which I could catch up and should--eight parts of cluegirl's Umbra Nihil, fabularasa's SG:A ficlet, glockgal's gorgeous interest meme art. Gawd, I haven't even looked at anything on Big Bang, Baby. I'm really behind. (As usual.) So, if anyone wants my attention to something, email or leave a comment.

Oh! I haven't even thought about what I'm going to wear to the release. Probably nothing special. Hmm. Well, I could re-think that. If you see a female at your bookstore dressed in a long blue gown and blue-and-bronze striped socks, masquerading as Rowena Ravenclaw, that might be me. ^_^