So Google have announced the ebook versions of Harry Potter will be available on their Google eBooks platform. You’ll buy them from the Pottermore site, but it looks like it will be powered by Google and you can transfer them into your Google Books library (and pay for them with Google Checkout). And Pottermore also [...]
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Warning: spoilers ahead. It did all end, and largely as expected, despite some fears the filmmakers would take a few too many liberties. The various crescendos of the books were duly included, their boxes ticked, although in some cases it was merely lip service. I suspect I am going to need repeat viewings to fully [...]
Wordnik has a nice little post which covers some of the clever wordplay, especially in the names, of the Harry Potter books, for example: A dumbledore is a bumblebee. Snape is a ship-building term that means “to bevel the end of (a timber or plank) so that it will fit accurately upon an inclined surface.” [...]
I have to say I really like the covers for a ‘Criterion Collection’ version of the Potter movies by Patrick Sullivan. They’re all good, but I think my favourite is the one for Prisoner of Azkaban:
So, the recent hype of Rowling’s latest work in the Potterverse is Pottermore. Take a look at the video on the site with J.K. giving some ideas of what the site will provide, including new material such as history and facts about the world of Potter, downloadable audiobooks and, for the first time, the Harry [...]
