Ordering UK version to be sent to US - advice?

[Steve]

---  "Jeremiah LaFleur" <hpfreakazoid at ...> wrote:
>
> --- "auntrebbis" <dbkelley@> wrote:
> >
> > Has anhone done this with past releaes? My copies of
> > HP 1-6 are the UK plain 'adult version' and I want to
> > order 7 in the same.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Deb
> >
> 
> bboyminn:
> 
> The thing most people in the USA forget is that the UK
> is just a few hundred miles away in a winter wonderland
> called CANADA.
> 
> You can order the UK versions from 'Chapters - Indigo'
> in Canada.
> =========================
> 
> Jeremiah:
> 
> Actually, I don't think of Canada as the UK. ... 
> Canada is it's own country now, aren't they? ...

bboyminn:

Context my friend; context. We are not talking about USA,
Canada, and the UK; we are talking about /ordering/ UK
versions of the Harry Potter books, and relative to
the UK versions of Harry Potter books, the UK is as 
close as Canada.

Put another way, if you are in the USA, you don't have
to order from England and pay all that shipping to get 
the UK versions, you just need to contact a book seller
in Canada.

Also-

Amazon.ca    (Amazon - Canada is also a potential source)

Personally, I just intent to go down to Walmart after 
midnight and buy a copy of the US version.

For OotP I ordered the UK version from Chapters, but,
unlike the beginning of the series, the new UK version
are nearly identical to the USA version.

Only when the social context is not intuitively clear
is a change made. The only change that I'm aware of
in the latest editions is at some point Fred says 
'keep your pecker up' which has a whole different 
meaning in the USA. In the UK, it means take heart,
keep your spirits up. Pecker refers to the heart. 

Other than that one change, I'm not really away of any
others. Most Brit-slang has been intigrated into the
story and people figure it out easy enough on their 
own.

As to the UK edition I recieve from Canada, though I
admire that they printed on recycled paper, the pages
and therefore the printing (typeface) was smaller and 
harder for my poor tired eyes to read. So, I prefer
the USA version for that reason.

For what it's worth.

Steve/bboyminn