Harry Potter and the Period of Quiet
The LibraryThing groups feature turns one tomorrow, followed shortly by Talk. I thought it would be fun to share the news-messages statistics for the Harry Potter Group, Hogwarts Express.
Check out the little boom for the movie (released July 11) and the crazy boom-bust-boom around when the book itself was released. For 24 hours, LibraryThing Harry Potter fans were reading, dammit.
I can report from experience that the rest of the world is still reading it. I went down to New York on business yesterday (and got caught in LaGuardia overnight, but that's another story). The plane was like Harry Potter study hall.
REMINDER: We're giving away prizes to 50 Harry Potter reviewers.
Check out the little boom for the movie (released July 11) and the crazy boom-bust-boom around when the book itself was released. For 24 hours, LibraryThing Harry Potter fans were reading, dammit.
I can report from experience that the rest of the world is still reading it. I went down to New York on business yesterday (and got caught in LaGuardia overnight, but that's another story). The plane was like Harry Potter study hall.
REMINDER: We're giving away prizes to 50 Harry Potter reviewers.
Labels: groups, harry potter, statistics
posted by Tim at 2:00 AM
10 Comments:
Can add the same. I was on an overland train from Bristol(UK) to Bournemouth(UK) and it was wall to wall with Harry Potter readers. Strangely when I caught a connecting train that had come from London it was awash with people working on laptops. Sad reflection of the loss of our 8 hour day. (I read mine on Saturday and did a review...)
My 14 yr old niece got up early Saturday morning, met the mailman at the road. She began reading at 1pm, took a break for supper, another from 8-9pm. Resumed at noon on Sunday, and finished it by 5pm in her chair outside under a shade tree. I read "Courage to Write" by Ralph Keyes along side her, amused as she would occasionally come up for air, and to move her neck around. I wonder how many kids had neck and shoulder aches?
She had to head off to camp on Monday for a week, and didn't want to be left hanging, or have any other kids spoil it for her.
I LOVE that graph! It's fantastic that you can see a direct correlation between a book and the usership of the site.
Yesterday, I saw a woman walking down the street, moving at maybe half a mile per hour, reading her HP.
What I see is that people don't post as much on Saturdays. If you look, there is a dip on the 7th and 14th. And I bet there will be a dip on the 28th.
Look at the dip. You can sure tell when we were antsy for book 7 and then when some of us were gone to try to avoid spoilers (07/20). :)
It would also be interesting to see a graph of the number of people with a copy of the book in their libraries each day. As of now (5th day after release) there are about 3200 copies and it seems to be gaining about 500 copies a day.
The first six books have about 14-20 thousand copies each.
I did some housesitting for my brother last weekend; the fabled book arrived that Saturday. The mailman remarked that he'd delivered some twenty to the neighborhood (Boise's North End).
I find this pic truly appropriate:
http://flickr.com/photos/frozenswirl/902155068/
My daughter and I were in Florence, Italy, on release day; she had wanted to get a copy in Italian and was disappointed to learn that the translations won't be available until at least December.
A week later I was staying in a large hotel in Hollywood, Florida, and saw dozens of people wandering through the lobby on their way to and from the beach and pool with Harry in hand.
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