The Tales of Beedle the Bard
For a while, I was interested in book-making. As in, the process of which a book is made by creating folios and stitching them together with a binding to make a book. I made some of my own books by printing out Project Gutenberg public-domain texts and stitching them together. Unfortunately, I’m not sure where they are at the moment.
When J.K. Rowling created this hand-written and hand-illustrated book, I thought it was amazing. She called it “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” and put one up for auction for charity. Amazon.com bought it and has a wonderful page of pictures of the book (of which the pictures on this page came from) along with some history and spoilers of the stories if you can’t wait for it to come out.
Finally, they’re releasing the book to print. There’s the $100 Collectors Edition and the $8 Standard Edition (which is still cheap for a hardcover book.)
Now, I just have to resist reading the stories before it comes out on December 4th!
