…at an auction held by Sotheby’s in London. There are only seven copies of this book and each of them have been hand written and illustrated by J K Rowling. All you Harry Potter enthusiasts will recall that this was the book that Dumbledore decided to present Hermione Granger in the seventh book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Some of the pictures of this book have been put up at the Amazon Website. They’ll be adding reviews of each of the stories and more pictures as they get hold of it. I only wish that this book is eventually made available to poor people like us, who can’t afford to spend $4 million on a book.
Posted by dinsan on December 14, 2007 at 2:47 am
you making me feel bad .. I am still get to read the seventh book…. thanks for the info
Posted by ish on December 14, 2007 at 2:56 am
Ah, and here I was wondering why the name of the book was sounding familiar. And don’t worry, there are many people around who’ll be waiting to type it out or maybe take photographs of it and make it public. But wait, maybe that might not happen cause there are only 7 copies and nobody’s gonna buy them to type em out and make everybody else have it for free.
And knowing the marketing skills of Rowling, I guess the printed version of the thing will be out at an affordable price in some months. Or else she’ll probably go and say Beedle the Bard was a lesbian who had a sex change.
Posted by carrotmadman6 on December 14, 2007 at 4:46 am
Hmmm…. interesting…. but i don’t understand why a skull on the cover??
I thought it was a children’s book??
Hope someone grabs hold of it & scan it!
Posted by bApHoMEt on December 14, 2007 at 9:13 am
Rowling is showing symptoms of withdrawal syndrome already? LOL. why cant she leave Harry Potter for good. this seems like Jay-Z’s retirement all over again.;)
Posted by Patrick on December 15, 2007 at 12:57 am
I saw where that fetched 1.95M pounds in London. Stiff price to pay but worth it for one of the rarest, most desired books ever printed. But in 5 years it’ll be GPL and we’ll all have a $4.99 copy of it.
Posted by Patrick on December 15, 2007 at 1:35 am
ruhi – where did you get the toolbar with all of the online collaboration sites right above the comments? I’ve been looking but too lazy to build my own
Posted by Ashish on December 15, 2007 at 3:09 am
Who cares about childrens stories? Oh wait, children!
Or else she’ll probably go and say Beedle the Bard was a lesbian who had a sex change.
Bwahaha, that is awesome.
Posted by ruhi on December 15, 2007 at 2:02 pm
@dinsan:
Haha…It was not really that good…but it was okay. You should read it if you can.
@Ish, As of now there are only seven copies. So I doubt that we’ll see much of the original work, but Amazon has said that they will be getting some more pictures and reviews of each of the stories.
Hopefully, you’re right and we’ll get to see theses books for the mass public too.
@Carrot, Exactly! Why a skull??? It looks more spooky.
@Bap- There is more to come
Supposedly, she’ll also be releasing an encyclopedia on Harry Potter.
@Patrick- 5 years? I’m not sure if I can wait that long
about the social bookmarking, I had written a post earlier on it. I use the greasemonkey script for it. Just run a search for “greasemonkey” in my blog.
@Ashish- Actually I would love to read them. I am a big fan of Russian folk tales too
Posted by Patrick on December 18, 2007 at 12:59 am
yeah. i like the script, but it doesn’t work in either my firefox or flock browsers. i wonder how much of it I need to rewrite to get it functioning
Posted by bApHoMEt on December 18, 2007 at 10:08 pm
I wonder if she’ll make a prequel. maybe based Dumbledore’s hogwarts days as a student with crush on mcgonagall. i’ll pay big money to read that.
Posted by ruhi on December 19, 2007 at 3:43 am
@Patrick:
Oohh..I’m actually using another script. I forgot the link however
But you can go to userscripts.org and run a search. You should be able to find something for sure.
Posted by Nidhi on January 28, 2008 at 6:24 am
see this for the reviews..
Ruhi: While I appreciate your effort, please don’t leave behind links to secondary sources. The entire review has been copied and pasted from the Amazon Website. Refer to my Comment Policy. Thanks.