{"id":20554,"date":"2023-08-18T09:18:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T16:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=20554"},"modified":"2024-08-17T09:54:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T16:54:54","slug":"how-to-download-this-years-hugo-packet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2023\/08\/18\/how-to-download-this-years-hugo-packet\/","title":{"rendered":"How to download this year\u2019s Hugo Packet"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n

Disclaimer: I\u2019m not involved with this year\u2019s Hugo Awards or Packet, and I don\u2019t know anything about what\u2019s going on behind the scenes; I\u2019m just a Worldcon member who wants to read the works in the Packet.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Part of the Hugo Packet is now available, for members of this year\u2019s Worldcon. (If you\u2019re not a member, you need to buy a membership<\/a> before you can download the Packet. Details about how to buy a membership are beyond the scope of this guide.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Unfortunately, there are three issues that may make it difficult for some people to download and read the ebooks in the Packet:<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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  1. The site is currently set up in such a way that you may see a security warning when you visit it.<\/li>\r\n
  2. It\u2019s not obvious how to find the ebooks on the site, and clicking the download links doesn\u2019t work.<\/li>\r\n
  3. The Packet doesn\u2019t include Kindle files as such.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n

    This unofficial guide explains how to deal with each of those issues.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

    (Thanks much to Andrew and Stevonnie for some of the info included in this guide! Any errors are mine.)<\/p>\r\n

    (Edited to add, a few hours later: I\u2019ve made a few small clarifications here and there since posting. Thanks to everyone who\u2019s sent comments and questions.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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    I. Getting past the security issue<\/h2>\r\n\r\n

    For some people, this issue has already gone away, and if all goes well, it\u2019ll go away soon for everyone. But if you run into the security warning, here\u2019s how to bypass it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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    1. Go to the Hugo Awards voting page<\/a> in the Chrome browser. (Other browsers may work too.)<\/li>\r\n
    2. If the page loads, then you\u2019re done; move on to part II.<\/li>\r\n
    3. If Chrome tells you that you can\u2019t proceed, click the Advanced button. Then click anywhere in the window and type thisisunsafe<\/i> (no letters appear as you type). The page then loads.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n

      Important note<\/b>: Don\u2019t use this workaround in most other contexts. When a browser gives you a security warning, there\u2019s usually a good reason for it. For more, see this discussion of bypassing a Chrome security warning<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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      II. Finding and downloading the ebooks<\/h2>\r\n\r\n

      The ebooks for each category are in the voting area for that category. Here\u2019s how to find and download them:<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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      1. Near the top of the page, click the \u6211\u8981\u6295\u7968 \/ I Want to Vote<\/b> button. A page titled \u201cQualification Check\u201d appears.<\/li>\r\n
      2. Enter your email address and click Get Code<\/b>, then wait for an email containing your membership number and the checkcode. (The email is from hugo_receipt@message.chengduworldcon.com, and has the Subject line \u201clogin\u201d. If you don\u2019t see it, check to see whether it was marked as spam. Some people aren\u2019t receiving any email from Worldcon at all; unfortunately, I don\u2019t have any recommendations for that situation.)<\/li>\r\n
      3. After you receive the email, enter the membership number and checkcode in the spaces provided in the web form.<\/li>\r\n
      4. Click the \u5f00\u59cb\u6295\u7968 \/ Start Vote<\/b> button.<\/li>\r\n
      5. On the \u201cVote For The Hugo Awards\u201d page, scroll down to the categories.<\/li>\r\n
      6. In the left column, click a category, such as \u6700\u4f73\u957f\u7bc7\u5c0f\u8bf4 Best Novel<\/b>. A list of finalists appears on the right.<\/li>\r\n
      7. In the list of finalists, look for a button labeled \u4e0b\u8f7d\u67e5\u770b\u76f8\u5173\u4f5c\u54c1 \/ Download&Review This Category<\/b>. If there\u2019s no such button, then the Packet for that category isn\u2019t available yet.<\/li>\r\n
      8. If there is such a button, then right-click or Control-click it, and select Download Linked File<\/b> from the context menu. The Zip file containing the files for that category starts to download. Alternatively, if you don\u2019t see a context-menu item like Download Linked File<\/b>, try copying the URL and pasting it into a new tab, or Shift+clicking or Command-clicking to open the link in a new tab. (If you just click the link, nothing happens, but if you use various alternative approaches, it downloads.)<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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        III. Opening and reading the ebooks<\/h2>\r\n\r\n
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        1. After the Zip file downloads, open it to uncompress it into a folder called \u201cHugo Packet\u201d. Inside that folder is another folder that contains the files.<\/li>\r\n
        2. If you want to transfer an ePub or PDF file to a Kindle device, use Amazon\u2019s \u201cSend to Kindle\u201d app, or use the special mail-to-Kindle email address that Amazon provides. (You can\u2019t directly sideload an ePub file to a Kindle device using a USB cable.)<\/li>\r\n
        3. If you\u2019re not using a Kindle, then open the ePub or PDF file that you want to read in your ebook reader.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,27,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-speculative-fiction","category-writing-samples"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20554"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20570,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20554\/revisions\/20570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}