4.8 • 880 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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0:14.1 | Did you know there are over 50 different cover arts available for Harry Potter and |
0:19.4 | the philosopher's stone? Hey brother! If you grew up reading the Harry Potter books when they were coming out like I did, |
0:24.7 | then chances are your first Harry Potter book looked like this if you lived in America or this if you lived in the UK. |
0:31.1 | And given how successful the books would go on to be |
0:33.4 | and the global phenomenon that Harry Potter would become, |
0:36.0 | that makes these two book covers |
0:38.0 | some of the most iconic artwork on covers of books ever. |
0:43.0 | But since they were published back in 1997, a good 26 years has passed and a lot has happened for Harry Potter. |
0:50.0 | At this point, there's probably no doubt that you've seen some alternate covers of some of the books |
0:53.7 | whether it's just on your ebook or your audio books or if you just been into Barnes and Noble ever in the |
0:58.4 | last few years they've just updated the artwork on the cover but believe you me when I say that what you have seen so far |
1:04.8 | has only scratched the surface of a very deep pool of surprisingly overlooked cover art. |
1:10.5 | Because at this point, Harry Potter has been printed in over 88 languages |
1:14.4 | and sold in over 200 countries around the world, and they do not use the same artwork in every country. |
1:20.5 | And let me tell you, they get pretty wild and wacky. |
1:23.4 | I've been diving through them all this week and found 50 different covers for the philosopher's |
1:28.3 | stone alone. And mind you, there's at least that many for the other six books as well. |
1:32.4 | So today I'm going to go through and rate all |
1:33.7 | 50 covers from the philosopher Stone on a scale of one to nine and three quarters and |
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