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The World's Fastest-Selling Book .

Excited fans dressed up as wizards

The fastest-selling book ever up to this week was the sixth Harry Potter book The Half-Blood Prince. However, author J. K. Rowling has broken her own record as the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series is officially the fastest-selling book in the world.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was finally released at midnight in the UK on Friday 20th July. Fans, dressed as characters from the books, lined up outside book shops hours in advance of the book going on sale.

One well-known book store in the UK claimed to have sold 15 copies of the book per second in the early hours of Saturday morning. The book sold 11 million copies in the first 24 hours of its release, breaking the 9 million record set by the sixth Harry Potter book.

Book shops and supermarkets competed with each other by offering big discounts on the book from its recommended retail price.

Author J. K. Rowling read excerpts from the book in a special midnight reading in London at the Natural History Museum. She then went on to sign copies of the book for the rest of the night for the 500-strong crowd who had been specially invited to the event.

It wasn't just in the UK where the frenzy to buy the book took place. In Hong Kong book shop staff dressed as wizards. In Australia special "magic" breakfasts were served to customers buying the book. In India customs offices worked on a Friday, which is a holiday there, to ensure people got the book on time.

It's been a whole decade since the first Harry Potter book was released. Since then, 325 million books have been sold and Harry Potter has become a global phenomenon. The latest book is being released in 93 countries.

Author J. K. Rowling hinted in advance that some of the characters do not survive a final meeting with the Dark Lord Voldemort.

But it's not up to BBC Learning English to spoil the plot for you all. Have fun reading the book in your own time. But don't tell us what happens - we haven't read it yet!

E-books read well, but readers prefer pa

Topic: E-books read well, but readers prefer paper

After years of promises and false starts, booksellers and technology companies are diving into the world of digital books. Sony Corp is selling the Reader Digital Book for $299, while giant online shopping company Amazon.com offers the Kindle for $399.

New readers are lighter than the average hardback fiction bestseller, easy on the eyes and let readers carry around as many as 200 titles in hardware that weighs less than a pound.

But to some people, there's something missing.

"It's, I guess, the feel of holding a book that someone really put a lot of effort into writing, and you kind of lose that a little bit with a digital product," said Katy Farina, 21, of Montgomery, New Jersey.

Farina, a student at the Minneapolis college of Art & Design, was browsing at the Borders bookstore near Madison Square garden. As shoppers lined up at closing time, the subtle, comforting aroma of books permeated the store.

"It feels real, whereas (the reader) kind of separates you a little bit from the story," Farina said.

Harry Howe, who had picked up "Surrender Is Not an Option" by former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, said he might use an e-book reader for blog or Web site material that he wanted to read while away from Home, but not for reading a novel.

"It's just not a physical experience that I'm yet comfortable with," said Howe, 55, who teaches accounting at the State University of New York's Geneseo campus and lives in Rochester. "On the other hand, I didn't grow up reading things on various Web sites."

Farina said she would like a reader for traveling because she would not have to transport so many books. This is something that HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide Chief Executive Jane Friedman said is a prime advantage.

"To put 10 books on your Sony reader or on your Kindle is a lot better than carrying 10 books," she said.

Readers often shy away from using the devices until they discover how pleasant reading on them can be, Friedman said.

"I was always the person who said, 'how can you have any kind of experience but the tactile experience of holding a book in your hand?'" she said. "And I still feel that way about certain books; but I don't feel that way about every single book I read."

Neither Sony nor Amazon would say how many machines they have sold, but enough people apparently are interested in trying them out. An Amazon executive at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week said the Kindle sold out on its first day in 5-1/2 hours.

Buying books for the Kindle is as easy as using Amazon to buy regular books, with the price often being a few dollars cheaper because of the absence of a physical product and titles available through a wireless download. Sony's ebook Store offers downloads through its own software to a buyer's PC. The volumes are then sent from the PC to a Reader Digital Book through a USB cable.

And for people wavering between paper and pixels, Sony does offer a concession -- an optional leather cover. "I think it's a shrewd move," said Howe. "How retro is that!"

5 Types of Books that Increase Intellige

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After opening the door,he underwent an amazing transformation.He tannedfacewas wreathed in smiles.and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss .Afterward he walked me back to my car .We passed the tree .and my couriosty got the better of me ,I asked him about what I had seen him do earlier

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The loss of good literature. Dead people can, in fact, ignored the loss of

I and the book - I read the books and articles

I read the book can understand the divided into two categories:

A career is the knowledge economy, such a description from "A Dream of Red Mansions" in Xiangyun persuasion of his brother, said that the words of the great :"...... Now, you do not want to study to test the Juren Jinshi, The often also the will to do these officials slaughtered the people, turn to talk about the career of more economic knowledge ......".

I am not that the brother's Family as a support, you can simply life. In order to live, since I have no choice but to work from a number of economic science career, whether I am in the office or my home, most of the book has become a Business Studies, Economics, marketing, etc. These worldly and even utilitarian Science. And I do have a very short period of time in which a grasp of the essence, and the ability to translate into cash!

But the book, I really feel the joy! (I am a new knowledge can be as long as the joy of the people will be able to). Read such a book, it will certainly have learned people have a sense of achievement is the arena, and see pure literature, pure art book is totally different feeling. A is in the application and create life, one is in the enjoyment of life. (Can not be divorced from the reality, high-level people who only arrived in the best material, the best use, and to the benefit of the state only when there is a genuine sense of happiness and I do not know if this is the people's happiness or misery!)

After reading economics, I sigh at the Samuelson "economics" of the qualities and rigorous, indulge in various branches of economics, these day-to-day experience, knowledge Youren in the economic and academic life, The bearing of the creation of value in reading pedagogy, it will be a limitless depressing, domestic education as the classic book is almost not (perhaps I was too extreme). But the education I do have a natural love. China today has neither the book, "Mi love child" of the United States, did not boast Comenius "teaching" of wisdom, not civilians, and Pei Sitaluoqi education comparable to the great breadth of mind, not to Su Huomu Dolinski "Trilogy of educating people," a blend of, humanity and wisdom! I praised the edcuational technology to the education revolution, Perry also deep in the master of education technology and education for the foresight and thinking first! When I was in bookstores, site search orgnization communication of hard work, they found her in China is still virgin territory! ERP system structures, optimizing management system, satellite detection of the simulation, prospects for the development of aircraft manufacturing, the delicate nano-world, global transformation, and so on which I have dealt with. In reading, absorbing and in the process of thinking, I enjoy full access to the knowledge of the deep joy! Open the window career knowledge economy, Pumianerlai the modern atmosphere, the atmosphere is a reality, but also is a dynamic force!

Unfortunately, the economy is, after all, career knowledge, reading the very short time, very rough, failed to scholars in various disciplines as Jingxiaxinlai concentrated study and experience in reading is inevitable in the impetuous and utilitarian! Perhaps one day I will return to the campus of the University, my love of education research, from the 3-foot platform's accession to the WTO this time I will experience sentiment conduction to the students so that they can be more realistic to more quickly and more Wuza adapt to this complex and the world, seeking to your place!


This is the first book and articles, the second category is to be called simply the book. Itself may not simply, I just read the heart is pure sake! Reading time is not a utilitarian, not a life of pressure and responsibility, simply because like! I like history books, like biographies, these books can greatly satisfy me in the shortest possible time to understand the most people, things and works of greed. I like the people Bogutongjin write the book, people do know the causes and effects of Pangzhengboyin; wisdom of the people I love to write the book, giggling, ridiculed and feared among people in all are Lin Li of the state; I like the spirit of the people through writing the book, Manzhi the crystal clear statement of the feelings of agitation or let me, or feelings of emotional or Tihuguanding.

The book is how the world's more, as I mentioned in the text of Liulichang A: I like Yu Zhuo, Ren Zhili How weak! In all written before I can only Fushou silence, do this life to enjoy their music!

72 blessed land

And lung Hill - House Jurong in Jiangning County community, Xi Tao You go in seclusion.
Chushan covered - Xiandu in Quzhou County, a real person rule of Oxfam.
Senzan - Liang County in Wenzhou, 15, near White River in grass, live Zhang Dong Hua rule.
East Xianyuan - in Taizhou Huangyan County, territoriality cents Liu Feng-lin rule.
West Xianyuan - also in Taizhou Huangyan County, Qiao Ling 120, territoriality Xian Zhang Zhao-period rule.
South Tian Shan - in the East China Sea East, Zhouchuan exchanges can be, Liu is a real person rule.
Yu-shan slipped - Peng dishes in the East China Sea near the island, many of the really Xianju, territoriality cents-step rule.
Lantau Hill - the West in the East China Sea, and Fuso phase grounding, a real person Liu-rule.
Yok Mu-dong - Yu-sun Shannan, is Xiaozai-Shi Lang implicit, since rain, still hear the sound of string and wind music,
Qiao often encountered people of the territory of the Ban Zhu Xian Lu Chi.
Danxia Mountain - in Magu Hill, Choi is the reality of the De Dao, to hear this Yuye more Zhongqing Voice, Cai is a real person rule.
Junshan - in the Dongting Qingcao Hu, Hou Sheng cents by the territorial administration.
If the big rock - in Yongjia Manwubianji Prefecture, 120, territoriality cents Li Fang to rule.
Jiaoyuan - statehood built in North County, Yin is the hidden reality.
Ling Hui - in Taizhou Tang Xingxian North, Mr. Bai Yun is implicit Department.
Wozhou - Yan County, in the South, is a real person by Fang Ming-rule.
Tianlao Ridge - Yan County in the south, is a real person Weixian Ren rule.
If Ye River - in the southern state Huiji County, is by far the world live-rule.
Jinting Mountain - in Luzhou nest County, alias Ziwei Hill, an MA immortal rule.
Qingyuan Mountain - in Guangzhou Qingyuan County, an overcast Live rule.
Ansan - in reference to the north state, the Department of Health, hidden, the President rule.
Maling Hill - the water in Liuzhou Guo Dong, Su Tamna implicit, is a true master of human, animal husbandry.
Yangshan geese - in Tanzhou Changsha County, Lou drive, hidden Department.
Dong Zhen Hui - in Tanzhou Changsha County, Xiyue live by the Korean government in the end.
Qingyu altar - in the Nanyue Zhu Rongfeng West, the Green Ukrainian rule.
- Temple of Heaven - the source of Hengyue West, Fung live by the rule.
- Source of Hope - in Nanyue strokes cent of the West, and also hidden by Mr. Deng.
Tung Shan Temple - belong in the town of statehood Commissioner Five Ridges, Princess of Huangshan.
Shan Tao - in Anguo County, Wenzhou, Mr. Tao had seclusion here.
Wong Jing - Cross County in Wenzhou, Baocha live by the rule.
Lanke Shan - in the letter, Wei County, Mr. Wang Zhi implicit Department.
Le River - built in Jianzhou County East, Confucius is left of the Yan.
Lung Fu Shan - in the letter, Guixi County, Zhang Jujun Lord of the immortal.
Mountain - In the letter, Shangrao Xian North, Mexico Live rule.
Source - in the mountains in Luofu, immortal HUA Zi period of rule.
Kim Jing Shan - Qian Zhou Qian of the county, Qiu quarter-rule.
Soap Hill Club - in Kyrgyzstan in Xingan County, Guo live by the rule.
Fengshan before - in Hongzhou Fengcheng County, Yin to live by the rule.
Happy Hill - Nanchang County in Hongzhou, a real person-to-rule.
East Baiyuan - in Hongzhou new Miss Prefecture, Liu immortal by the rule.
Hill Bowl pool - in Chuzhou, Wang Joe De Dao in it.
On the mountain - in Runzhou Dantu County, is finally a real person rule.
Maogong altar - in Suzhou in Cheung Chau, a village of the religious immortal.
Hill cages - and state in the calendar County, Guo is a life-rule.
Tongbai Mountain - Tang, Tongbai County, is Lee Jun-rule by the Department.
Ping Shan are - in Chungju, a rise of the Yam Zhenjun.
Green Dill Hill - in Langzhou Wuling County, Taoyuan sector access.
Tiger Xishan - in Jiangzhou South Pengze County, is the implicit five Liu.
Chang Yongsan - in Tanzhou Li Lingxian North, Mr. Zang is a rule.
Fukuyama hold - even in states Lian Shanxian, a Fan live by the rule.
Damian Hill - in Chengdu County Yizhou, an immortal Bai-cheng-rule.
Hill yuan morning - in Jiangzhou IN DUCHANG COUNTY, Sun Live, the period of Health rule.
Horseshoe Hill - Raozhou in Poyang County, live by the rule of the state.
De-shan - Langzhou Wuling County, immortal Zhang Jujun rule.
Blue Water High River Hill - in Yongzhou Lantian Xian, and so on the Tour.
Blue Water - in the West are Lantian Xian, Xian Zhang Zhao-territoriality of its governance.
Yu-feng - in the West are Jingzhao County, an immortal Kashiwado rule.
Tianzhu Mountain - hidden in Hangzhou in the county, territorial cents WANG Bai yuan rule.
To Valley Hill - in Shangzhou, is the implicit Sihao immortal.
ZHANG Gong hole - Changzhou in Yixing county, live Kang Sang-rule.
Sima Meishan - Taizhou Tiantai Mountain in the north, is the rule by the Ming-immortal.
Long in the mountains - in the governor Qi County, Mao is a real person rule.
In the mountains of - in the River House in danger of the rural counties, is the rule-immortal.
Lake Uozumi hole - in the West in ancient Yao, Shi Huang, was hide here.
Mianzhu Hill - in Chinese, Mianzhu County, is the wife of Qionghua rule.
Lushui - in the West Liangzhou, is immortal Angong rule.
Coombe Hill - in Qiannan, is the rule rather live.
Han Shan - in-state, is Chek Mr. governance.
Jincheng Mountain - in the ancient Shu limit, marble-shu, a stone live by the rule.
Yunshan - Shao, Wugang County, an immortal Lu Sheng-rule.
North Mang Mountain Hill - are in East County, Luoyang, Wei is a real person rule.
Lushan Mountain - Fuzhou in Lianjiang County, is grateful to live rule.
East Hill - in the East Sea, 25, Wang is a life-rule

36 Dongtian

Huotong caves - Weekly back to 3000,名曰Hollington Dongtian, Long River County in Fuzhou, an immortal Wang Wei-Hyun rule.
Dongyue Taishan hole - a thousand miles a week back,名曰Hyun Dong Tian Peng, in Dagon, Qian Feng County, a mountain map son rule.
South Yueheng cave - to 700 weeks,名曰ZHU Ling-Dongtian, in Hengzhou Hengshan County, the immortal Dan Changsheng rule.
West Yue Hua cave - to 300 weeks,名曰Zong Cavity days, in China, Huayin counties, and car-owners of a real person.
Bukak often cave - Weekly back to 3000,名曰Hyun Dong Tian Zong, in constant Changshan, Quyang County, Live Zheng Zhen rule.
Yuesong in the cave - Weekly back to 3000,名曰Sima Dongtian, in the East are Dengfeng County, immortal DENG Yun-rule.
Emeishan hole - back to 300 weeks,名曰empty tomb Dongtian, in Jiazhou Emei County, laid on a real person Tang rule.
Lushan hole - back to 180 weeks,名曰-ling really days, in Jiangzhou Dean Xian, Chou Cheng-chih, when the reality of governance.
Four out caves - back to 180 weeks,名曰Hill Chishui days, the state in Shangyu County, Live Diao Dowling rule.
Huiji cave - to 350 weeks,名曰very large Kang Hyun days in the county, San Jinghu, the immortal Guo Hua rule.
Taibaiensis cave - to 500 weeks,名曰Xuandedongtian, North House in Beijing Chang'an County even Zhongnanshan, even the immortal-quarter rule.
West caves - back to 300 weeks, Tianzhu-名曰very Xuantian, Nanchang County in Hongzhou, a real person Tanggong-rule.
Small cave-wei - back to 300 weeks,名曰Hyun heaven Hao Sheng, Li Lingxian in Tanzhou, immortal flowers Qiulin rule.
Submarine cave - to 80 weeks, Secretary Xuantian名曰Tianzhu, in the SHU, Huaining County, immortal virgatum Qiuzai rule.
Guigu caves - weeks back Qishi Li, Secretary for true Hyun名曰your days, in the letter, Guixi County, Live Cui Wenzi rule.
Wuyishan hole - back to 120 weeks, or really名曰of Xuantian, built in Jianzhou County, Live Liu Shaogong rule.
Community cave - to 120 weeks,名曰Taixuan law Lotte, in Kyrgyzstan, Yongxin County, Liang Bo Luan owners of a real person.
Huagai caves - Sishili weeks back,名曰Yung-day National Cheng Kung University, in Yongjia County in Wenzhou, immortal-Xiuzhi the public.
Bamboo covered cave - to 80 weeks,名曰Chang-yao brocken spectre days, in Taizhou Huangyan County, an immortal Shangqiu-rule.
Du Qiaoshan hole - back to 180 weeks,名曰-Hyun Dong Tian, in the capacity in Puning County, Liu radical of the immortal.
Whitehead cave - to Qishi Li Zhou,名曰online music really long days, and state-Han Shanxian, white real person rule.
Leakage rich caves - Sishili weeks back,名曰-Que Po-kyu days in passenger flow in the North County, an immortal Jian Live rule.
Suspect cave - Weekly back to 3000, North Korea really Taixu名曰days, in Tangxian County Road extension of the state, the immortal Green really strict rule.
Tung Yang cave - to 150 weeks,名曰Tung Yang, the concept implicit days, in Tanzhou Changsha County, Liu life-rule.
Fu cave screen - back to 180 weeks,名曰Xuanzhen too yuan days, in Ezhou, Tang County, Chen is a true rule.
The unitary cave - to 100 weeks, the Unitary名曰, Miao days to Chen Zhou Qi Shili, Yin Live rule.
Jinting cave - to 300 weeks,名曰Jinting Chong-Miao days in the county, Yan, Zhao Xian is a primary rule.
Magu cave - to 150 weeks,名曰Danxia days, in Fuzhou Nancheng Xian, Wang is a life-rule.
Xiandu caves - 300 weeks back, Mr cents名曰Xiandu days, in the Yunxian, Jin, Zhao is a life-rule.
Qingtian cave - to 45 weeks,名曰Qingtian large crane days, the state Department of Qingtian County, is a life-pay rule.
10-minute cave - to 100 weeks,名曰Zhu Tai-sheng days, in Runzhou Spring County, Gong is a life-rule.
Chang-dong - weeks back to San Shili, Chang Fang-liang名曰life Dongtian, Runzhou sentence passengers County, Lee is a rule.
Purple covered cave - to 80 weeks, Hyun-dong, as名曰Purple days, often in Jingzhou County, a plume of a real person rule.
Head caves - back to 100 weeks, Di Xuantian名曰days covered, in Hangzhou Yuhang County, Jiang is a real person rule.
Taoyuan cave - to Qishi Li Zhou,名曰Baima Hyun-days, Hyun, Wuling County, is grateful to live rule.
Jinhua caves - back to the 50th week, days名曰Jinhua-yuan, Wu, in Jinhua County, is wearing a real person rule.