[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Harry Potter books

[Sherry Gomes]

MJ:
> I ****KNEW**** I wasn't the only person who bought multiple copies!
>
> I have a set in paperback at my desk. I write in those, taking notes, 
> highlighting, etc.
> 
> I have a hardback set at home. Those don't get written in, except for 
> one hardback copy of HBP, because it took so long to get the paperback 
> version. Then, I had to buy a new, unwritten-in hardback.


Sherry now:
I have one each of all the books on cassette, and then, because the
cassettes were breaking and the boxes getting torn, and because I wanted to
be able to play the books on my portable MP3 player, I just bought them all
again on CD.  Well, except they didn't have COS in stock, so I haven't
gotten that one yet on CD.  I also have all of them in Braille, in plain
text format and in two different forms of digital braille, which is braille
that can be read with special devices attached to a computer or with screen
reading software!  They are all the US version, though someday, I'd like to
get the UK audio versions as well.

The interesting thing about the two audio versions of GOF is that I got the
cassette version the day GOF was released.  When Jim Dale recorded it, he
didn't even know the title, so he just says the fourth book in JK Rowling's
Harry Potter series.  It also has the original version of James and Lily
coming out of the wand, so they come out in the wrong order.  However, I
just finished reading the CD version.  It still says the fourth book .... no
title, but it does have the corrected graveyard scene with Lily coming out
of the wand first.  It was cool to read it, because I had never read the
corrected version!

Sherry