Buffalo News business reporter Matt Glynn finds out what life was like before June 21st for Digicon, the company that did text layout and image scanning for Order of the Phoenix.

Thanks Petra, for this item about the National Braille Press’s efforts to provide Potter books to the blind: Here’s a chance for HP fans to help make OotP accessible & affordable to the community of Braille readers: on Sat., 7/26/2003, assemble and box volumes of OotP in Braille for National Braille Press in Boston, MA. …read more!

Ack, meant to link to this a while ago – check out Newsround’s ‘Pure Potter’ chat, in which Lizo Mzimba chats with kids about the fifth book and a BBC correspondent sits Chris Rankin down for a talk about the OotP revelations (and whether Dan Radcliffe has the temperament to portray the 15-year-old Harry). Not …read more!

There’s been an update to the Lexicon – check out the Ministry of Magic section and an update to the Thestrals entry. Also, work has begun on updating the spell encyclopedia.

Check it out, quotage: Recently, a friend asked me if Potter was worth the hype. I’m not sure if anything is worth the hype that the modern entertainment industry produces: overblown publicity machines for works that will vanish in a weekend. But if anything is worth the hype, it’s Harry Potter. The books enrapture children, …read more!

Apparently the French don’t mind what language their Harry comes in. The English OotP is at the top of the charts.

Apparently it’s extremely positive. See, the geniuses all get it. When we know when it’s coming out, we’ll let you know. Some of you have said you can get it through AOL, but I have AOL and have been unsuccessful, and also have word it’s being saved for the print magazine first.

In their time, Sherlock Holmes, Little Nell, and Dracula raised quite the excitement.

The Daily Herald details the path of Potter through the hands of a family.

Heads up – issue #718 of Entertainment Weekly will have a review of OotP by thriller mastermind Stephen King, who gave a very nice notice to GoF in 2000. Thanks to Allie, we know that the last issue was #716/717, so next Friday (the one after if this was a double issue) will have the …read more!