Salon‘s take on the Midnight Potterfest (a view from the Upper West Side Barnes & Noble.) Meanwhile, on the West Coast, the Chronicle surveys the San Fran Potterfest scene.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune (workplace of Pop Culture Junk Mail) offers a Harry Potter quiz. Test your knowledge of the first three tomes.

A short autobiography of J.K. Rowling for the reading pleasure of those who don’t have their copy yet. (I just got mine! Bye!)

Potter alternatives for the insatiable reader, based on a poll of independent booksellers (via Whim and Vinegar.)

And, an adult who doesn’t like Harry so much. (But I don’t see why we can’t read Potter and Beowulf.)

A wonderful essay in which an adult explains why he loves the Harry Potter books. (From March 99)

Virtual Harry Potter, a web-based RPG of the young wizard’s world.

The faster readers out there may want to go ahead and preorder Harry Potter V, due out July 2001.

Pictures of the Potter midnight melee.

For those of us waiting for our copies ordered on-line, this is still a good question: Can online retailers get the books to our anxious hands quickly enough? I’ll know tomorrow morning.