Yep, this is exactly what you're looking for, these hexadecimal codes. If you use them wisely, you'll find treasure. Just read on.
Harry Potter Complete Series
PDF / British and US Edition / Digital Version / Bookmarks Included
What the hell is this?
For those who have searched PDFs of Harry Potter the books for so long but get nothing in return, one thing must have been run into very often, I guess, those files are either banned by the cloud drive providers or overdue.
That's why I came up with this idea, to share the files not using any cloud drive services. I hope it will last a little longer.
Here's the thing. Digital PDF is small in file size. Compress it will furtherly reduce the space needed. If we read the zip file by hexadecimal, we can have a plain-text-look content of the file, which may probably fit into an online article, or at least, part of it would.
I'm testing it using this website. It responses okay.
Reverse the processes mentioned above should produce the original file.
Name Pattern
HP<#1>_[UK/US]_<#2>
- HP: abbr. for Harry Potter.
- #1: Serial number.
- UK: British edition; US: United States edition.
- #2: Part number of splited files.
How to get the file?
Download a text editor that supports hexadecimal.
I believe a freeware called HxD will do. It's tiny, fast and easy to use. You can find it here. Of course you could always usa a more advanced software such as Sublime Text. But I'll continue the tutorial using HxD.-
Launch HxD. Create an empty file.
In your web browser, open up the article, HP5_UK_1 for example. Wait for it to complete loading, patiently.
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Copy from the exactly very first character all the way down to the exactly very last one of the main text. You may want to simplify the redundant drag-n-pull process by clicking an in-point, and shift click an out-point. Perform a copy operation. Wait for several seconds or the massive data may not have been written into the clipboard yet.
Click OK if this dialog box prompts up. Move the cursor at the beginning of the file in HxD, and paste. (For latter parts, move the cursor at the end of previous content. Leave no space and make no overlap.)
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If a single book has been splited into several parts, due to over-length issue. You will have to browse them in turn, copy and paste the hexadecimal codes one after another. Make sure there's neither any spaces among parts, nor any overlaps. Repeat step 4 & 5 till the last part is dealt with. Then move on.
Choose Save as menu and name the file whatever you want with
.zipextension, HP5.zip for instance. Click Save.Now, you can unzip HP5.zip and reach the PDF file inside.
Have fun.
Something to notice
- Patience! All you wanna do is have a little more patience. The hexadecimal code is still toooooooooooooooooo loooooooooooooooooooooooooog to manipulate in real time. Loading, copying and pasting are significantly time-consuming. Wait for several seconds after copying until the OS complete writing content into the clipboard. Otherwise, you will paste the last content in the clipboard. The process depends on your computer performance.
- Some of the hexadecimal text editors won't let you paste hexadecimal code directly. Codes will be pasted into the textbox as plain text. This leads to a common mistake and will result in unavailable file. Make sure you're pasting hexadecimal codes as hexadecimal codes.
- For Windows Users, don't bother, the NotePad won't work. It will corrupt the structure of a binary file (see here). Files saved by NotePad won't open other than plain-text formation. You'll lose the content and have an unreadable zip file.
Up to now, everything is experimental.
Blimey. Jianshu App crashes trying to open no matter which hexadecimal code article. It must have been memory leak. Poor programming btw.
