Go for the paperback
Sadly disappointed by this book. Everyone who'd be interested in a collector's edition will already know the story, so I'm not going to bother with a plot summary. This book is seriously overpriced for what it costs to actually produce it--but then, they're milking wallets like crazy.I found that the leather binding was rather funny-looking, the illustration had somehow been altered in a way that was VERY unappealing, and the picture of Harry by Rowling somehow... uh... it just didn't make me feel any less odd about it. I don't have a problem with, say, the leather-bound LOTR volume because they bothered to make it more worth the money.I'd advise that either you take the advice of the other reviewer and get it from the UK (where people apparently don't get quite so milked for their merchandise) or buy several paperback copies. It's not worth seventy little ones just for a semi-nice cover.