Pour yourself a butterbeer and relive your favorite series
It took 14 years for J.K. Rowling to agree to make the Harry Potter
series available digitally. And while the seven books hit the e-shelves
in 2011 through Rowling’s fan site Pottermore, they’ve never been available like this. The e-reading subscription service Oyster
— often called the Netflix of books, since it lets you stream an
unlimited number of books on many devices for $9.95 a month — has worked
with Pottermore to bring the entire series and the complete Hogwarts
Library to users.
Oyster is noteworthy for having a customizable user experience:
readers can alter the visual theme of their book. But those reading the
Potter series can choose a Hogwarts house to read in — where the font
and colors will reflect whether you’re a Gryffindor, Slytherin,
Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff. Users can even tap a Sorting Hat icon that will
place them in a house to read in at random. (That is, you no longer
need to make polyjuice potion to get inside Slytherin.)
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