So I've been listening to Harry Potter on iPod for about a week. At a rate of about 2 chapters per day I was planning to be finished tomorrow, or maybe the day after. But a coworker was pestering me enough to hurry up and finish so we could discuss it that I found myself reading the ebook in between chapters and then went for a walk around the lake over lunch and basically finished the thing in a couple of hours this afternoon. Ironically, I am scheduled for vacation next week, when I really should be reading the silly thing instead of deliberately finishing it before I go.

Anyway, the point of my story is that this afternoon on the train home, I sat down and realized that the people 4 rows ahead of me were actually discussing the ending of the book. So if I hadn't picked up speed and finished today, I would have walked right into a major spoiler. Yikes. I was tempted to tell them to shut up, there might be people on the train who had not yet finished the book.