To have «gotten through» to have come to the end, to sense the
laborious process of «
working toward» about to
break through into an «end achieved,» is a feeling we all know.
(Or
break copyright, either by downloading an illegal copy from somewhere or by going through the
laborious process of scanning the entire book and converting it to PDF files — which, by the way, will
work on the Sony but not on the Kindle 2.)