Slovak 25th Anniversary Edition: The Best Slovak Yet???

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Three, up, two across, tap that play button three times,
and walk through the archway into Dialogue Alley. Hello, and

(00:23):
welcome to Dialogue Alley, the Official Potter Collector podcast about
Harry Potter books, book translations, and all other things magical.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm Eric, I'm Carly, I'm Melanie.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
And I'm Peter.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Ay. And the four yes, four of us are Harry
Potter book translation collectors. We collect Harry Potter books from
all over the world. And this is episode fifteen of
season five of our podcast, something Funny.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
Melanie, you just Ron Burgundy. That's so well and I'm
very proud of you.

Speaker 5 (01:00):
That was good. Thank you, the four yes, four of us. Yes,
I didn't actually I feel.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
I feel like that wasn't actually in the next so
it wasn't super ron Burgundy. It was ron Burgundy with
an Eric twist.

Speaker 5 (01:13):
Nicely done, and there was no question mark.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
I'm Ron Burgundy. I Well.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
The next the next thing on our notes is always
what do we talk about on this show? It's like
a question mark.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
And next week we talk about what do we talk
about on this show?

Speaker 5 (01:31):
You have to yell it.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well, I can tell you we talk about Harry Potter stuff.
Specifically Harry Potter, books, book translations and all of the
things magical.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
I just said that right before, all other things magical, all.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
The other things magical. But any who's we're back. We
had two episodes in a row of kind of very
like off not off topic because it was still Harry
Potter related, but unstructured, shall we say so, we're going
to get back to our structure of our show, which,
if this is the first time you're listening to us, welcome,

(02:05):
This is great. If this is the third time, because
you joined us for the two unstructured episodes, we're glad
you're here again. And this episode we're actually talking about
a translation again, which is great because that's what we
like talking about on our show, about book translations. So
we're gonna have a little bit of news. We're going
to talk about the books from Slovakia today and finish

(02:29):
her off with a translation of the show, which spoiler
is from Slovakia.

Speaker 5 (02:35):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
I wish I knew more. I wish I knew more
words in the Slovak language. Then I could just be
throwing them in randomly here.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
Yeah, you're gonna.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
I was going to say love like slove this episode
but that's that's I don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
Sorry, guys, that's okay, love OC.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Walk down. Oh wow, I'm ready. I think the rest
of you are ready. So let's dive into some news.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
M h no, it's it does work. You're gonna slove

(03:36):
ach this episode.

Speaker 5 (03:39):
That sounds good.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
I like that if you add something instead of uh
like love, uh like, you're gonna slove o. You're gonna
slove o this episode.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
See that's where I was like kind of going gonna chi.
I feel like my Long Island like didn't couldn't.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Island, The Long Island messed up a little.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
Bit, a little bit.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Okay, sorry, that's okay.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
You're doing the news.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Oh I'm doing the news.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Wow, congratula.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Oh my goodness. What the heck is going on? Is
this our only news? Which is great news? I mean
it's not bad, it's not like bad news, it's like
incredible news.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
I feel like we.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
Spent the last two episodes talking so much about Harry
Potter Shop Chicago.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
We talked so much about Epic Universe.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
I feel like we have like beat the topics. So
I feel like, I mean, and this is kind of
like relation to that anyway.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
So I was going to say, I was going to say,
it's like, oh, here we are talking again about HP
Chai but also HPN. Why Mira and Eduardo a Ka
Mina Lima are coming to the United States for a
little shop tour. So they're they're coming to check out

(04:59):
their new store in the Harry Potter Chicago shop and
then they were will also be next day. They're flying
the next day right to New York and they're going
to visit the Harry Potter's shop in New York, which
is very exciting. So that's the seventeenth and the eighteenth, Right,
seventeenth and eighteenth, I think so pretty sure?

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Yeah, sure, it's that weekend.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Okay, so of this month May, So Sunday they'll be
in New York and then Saturday they'll be in Chicago
and from seven to seven to nine in Chicago and
then six to eight pm in New York on the eighteenth.
And yeah, very exciting. You don't need to get tickets.
It's a first come, first serve basis. And they will

(05:47):
be signing their books, they'll be signing their art prints.
Well they won't actually be signing the art prints, they'll
be dedicating their art prints oh, cool, which is interesting.
I saw that on their websit site, like how like
they Oh, that makes sense why they can't sign their
art prints because there are the limited signed versions, so

(06:08):
you can buy the like deluxe versions which are signed.
So yeah, that makes sense. Why you because then people
could just buy the standards and then have them signed,
So that makes sense. So they'll only be dedicating those,
which is still cool.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
I actually have a.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Dedicated min A Lima print of Weasley's Wizard Wheezes and yeah,
so there was one other thing that they'll be signing.
You guys, talk more and I'm going to pull up
the information.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
I was going to say, you're doing a phenomenal job.
Like I literally just wrote in the notes Mina Lima
coming to the US. I'm like, Peter must know a
lot about this event, because I didn't write anything else
in the notes about it.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
He does know a lot about this event, and he's
very excited to I know. I can say this, Yeah,
I can tell you. Tell you all, y'all, if you're
in Chicago, come to the event, because you're gonna see
me there and I will be filming. I'll be kind
of covering the event for Mira and Eduardo. So I'll
be doing kind of like fan interviews and talking to

(07:09):
all of you about, you know, Mira and Eduardo and
what you like about them. And I'll be showing showing
the whole just meet and greet an event and there'll
be a video on the Potter Collector channel and then
we're still working out details, but Mira and Eduardo and
I will then you know, take a look at their
store in Chicago or their kind of section in Chicago.

(07:31):
So yeah, very very exciting things happening. But as I
pull up the information, keep on talking.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
I mean, maybe I should drive to Chicago.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
What a what a time to go? I mean my quest.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
I suppose I could drive there on a Saturday and
come home on a Sunday. That's pretty easy.

Speaker 5 (07:51):
I mean, Peter, are you going to come to New York?

Speaker 3 (07:55):
No, I'm not gonna come to New York. I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
Why? Yeah, h I want you to come to her.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
I like that you phrased it. I like that you
phrased it like they're coming to the United States to
check out their store in Chicago, like they haven't seen it.
Like what if they get there and they're like this stinks.

Speaker 5 (08:13):
I don't like it.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
To do it again? Can they just like leave unacceptable?

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Okay? So I pulled up the info. So again Saturday
the seventeenth of this month May seven pm to nine
pm at the Chicago store on at six hundred and
seventy six North Michigan Avenue. And then Sunday the eighteenth
of May as well, six pm to eight pm and
that store at the Harry Potter store in Chicago or

(08:39):
a shop in Chicago is located at nine thirty five Broadway,
New York, New York. So it's a free entry event again,
no reservation required hirst first come, first served basis. The
queue will open thirty minutes before the event starts, and
they request that you don't attempt to join the queue earlier.
So and then the queue will begin in Chicago inside

(09:05):
of the entry so in the entry vestibule next to
the Mermaid stained glass that's where they're looking to have
the queue start. And then for the Harry Potter shop
in New York, the que will begin by the entrance
of the Mina lima section in the cellar, which is
the basement. The queue closes once the event has reached
capacity or thirty minutes prior to the event end time,

(09:28):
whichever comes first. And then okay, here we go. So
any prints which aren't the Deluxe prints or the Deluxe Prince,
they don't say that. They do say any prince, but
it's no DeLux Princes, they won't like be signing it
or books. Oh oh, here we go. This I see.
If I had read this the if I had finished

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reading the sentence before I started, like assuming what it meant,
things would have made sense. So any princes or books
must be purchased prior to joining the event. That's what
the sentence says. They'll sign up to three items per person,
like signed or dedicated, which I think is incredibly cool.

(10:10):
So if you have all three of the men A
Lima books, you could have all three of them signed.
So books are eligible for signatures and dedications. And then
the Mina Alima art prints as I mentioned, are eligible
for dedications only. Dedications can be personalized with a name only,
and they can't accommodate larger accommodations. And you're welcome to

(10:32):
bring your men Aleima books or art prints to or
purchase them again, purchase them at the event, or bring
them with you if you already have them. So yeah,
and then they say any other products or items will
not be signed. So I saw this in New York
a lot at the event that they did where they
came for their the Art of men Aalima tour, which

(10:55):
mel you were there for, which was very fun.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
It was that was so fun.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
That was so fun. But they they a lot of
people wanted to have like the Marauders map signed, but
they can't, Like, I don't think they can legally sign
those things. I'm assuming I have a copyright issue.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
I have a Platform nine and three quarters ticket signed
by them.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
Was it done like a while ago?

Speaker 5 (11:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Okay, so I think something changed where they can't like
sign things that they don't like sell or create. I
could be wrong, but yeah, So so don't bring like
props or anything for them to sign.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
But yeah, I have books one and two signed and
I don't have Book three signed, and it BUR's my soul.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Well, maybe somebody's going to have to go to uh
the store on the eighteenth.

Speaker 5 (11:52):
You mean New York, I know.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
But the thing is like, yeah, okay, My problem is
is that I both mine or bloom very so I
don't know if it would get here in time to
have a Bloomsbery copy signed by them. And also I
refuse to have them sin a Scholastic because that's just
a little smack in the lice.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
It's just a little little unfortunate.

Speaker 5 (12:14):
I'm not gonna have them do that.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
That's actually so interesting because I think both of mine
are Scholastic. Now I'm thinking like, oh shoot, I need
to like try to overnight Bloomsbury books because I would
love to have a set of Bloomsbury books.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
Well, if you do that, can you get an extra
prisoner of Azkaban.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
And have them just yes, I definitely will, please.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
Please please, Yeah, I have because because I have them
on nameplates, like when you like pre ordered them, they
came signed when you initially got book books one, two,
and three. For whatever reason, it just like slipped my
mind to get book three and I just didn't do it.
So I have books one and two. I don't have
Book three blooms Very signed. So Peter, if you order them,

(13:00):
get an extra prisoner of Askam for me.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
And.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
I'm going to yeah, I'm gonna I'm looking on Amazon Eba.
When you guys start the Slovak book segment out like
or actually, when you guys do the translation of the show,
because a spoiler alert, the Potter Collector doesn't have the
book that is in the translation of the show. So
I don't have the tots No, I'm tots less. Yes, yes,

(13:29):
I don't have it yet, yes, yes, yes so so
yeah so I will. I will get all those ordered. Yeah.
So exciting. They're on their way. They're gonna be coming
really soon.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
And hopefully they like what they see.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
Hopefully they slovevok what they see. So maybe we should
move into the main segment. Oh my god, I'm so

(14:14):
proud of myself.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
Proud of you too, Oh my goodness. All right, So,
for those of you who have listened to this podcast
way back even recently, you know how much we love
the Slovak books. We have done episodes talking about like
we did like the Totsies one year where it was

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talking like we gave awards so like which book would
win the different levels of the tots Like. It was
very fun and for me, the Slovak books like hands
down are always my absolute favorite.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
I know Carly feels the same way. I know Eric.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
Eric has other favorites, some weird, obscure ones, like Korean
Anniversary Edition, one volume.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Hardcover, that's second translation.

Speaker 5 (15:11):
Second translation. Yeah, that's his, that's his, like his absolute jem.
But like particularly still in this.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Is still in the junk food area of the food pyramid.
For me, it's at the tippy top.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
Oh yeah, without a doubt. So the reason why I
wanted to talk about this in the main segment is
because one, the twenty fifth Anniversary book just came out,
So it's kind of interesting, like comparing all three books,
which I think is like a little bit outside of
what we would do for a tots because not for nothing,

(15:45):
I pulled the twentieth Anniversary off my shelf and then
I pull have the twenty fifth Anniversary next to it,
and I have a lot of feelings about it.

Speaker 5 (15:54):
I want to see if you guys pick up the
thing that you think that I might be picking up on.
What are your thoughts?

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Are we starting with the Grand Prey one A are
we just gonna say?

Speaker 5 (16:11):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (16:11):
I mean, there's not much to say about the Marry
Grand Prey other than hardcover.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Other than it's it's number one.

Speaker 5 (16:19):
It has the number one.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
Hard covers, number one, super glossy, super high quality for
the Longest Time was the best smelling book on my shelf.
If not, it might still be the best smelling book
on my shelf. It's always my favorite. Everything gets held
up to this book when it comes to how good
a book smells. I'm obsessed with all of the slow

(16:41):
box books, but this this book is always like it's
like coming home, Like anytime I stick my nose in
this book, then the.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
Twin I just want that's the that's the song. I
just want to go home. I want to go home.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
That's what. That's what with the twin can smell my
book and smell my book.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
It's so good. It smells so good. It's like woods
and inky, and.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
I always think of like a green eggs and ham,
like would you smell it in a boat?

Speaker 5 (17:18):
I would smell it on a boat, and would spell
it in the rain.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Would you smell it on a train?

Speaker 5 (17:24):
I would, I could on a train.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
Okay, So next they came out with the twentieth anniversary
Slovak Book, which I will say and can continue to say,
is my favorite book on my shelves period number one,
favorite book, favorite artwork, favorite quality, favorite, literally everything about
this book is my favorite book. That being said, the

(17:50):
twenty fifth Anniversary came out and is supposed to be
like this enhanced version of the twentieth, and I still
think I like the twentieth better. And Carly and I
were talking about it a little bit before because there
are things about it. But Eric, I want to know
what you think, and Carly, I also want to know

(18:11):
your thoughts on it.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well. To me, the main different is if you haven't
seen these books before, we'll post pictures of them. Carly
is always super great about posting pictures of these books
on our Instagram page. The art is identical. It's the
same picture. However, the twenty fifth Anniversary all of the

(18:34):
words are gold foil versus the twentieth Aniversary. They're just
part of the art. They are raised a little bit,
which it's spectacular, you know. It's like a little bit
of a tactile enjoyment when you rub both of them.
But to me, the first thing that I noticed that
was different was the spine has a different shape. That

(18:58):
was my first thing. The twenty th ver is more
of a square shape. So when you put them all
together in the box set that I have that I
think all of us have, it just makes like one
big flat panel on the front, which is really cool.
And oftentimes when they have books that have those like
perfectly flat spines, they increase really badly when you open them,
or it just doesn't. It's sometimes the choice to make

(19:23):
the spine flat is compromised by like the quality of
the book is compromised by that. Not the case with
that twentyth anniversary one. It's great, it's fantastic. The way
that they made it, I don't understand. But the newer
one has like a rounded spine which is very similar
to the original with the Grand prax art. They both

(19:43):
have the same like type of book. If you like
look at them side by side, it's like almost the
same blueprint of how the book is physically put together.
And it does have the gold foiling on the spine,
which is also nice, But there are some major differences,
like the color saturation of the art is different. On

(20:04):
the back, the older one had the Hogwarts Express ticket
and the newer one just has a barcode, which boo, like,
why would you change that? What?

Speaker 5 (20:18):
What a silly thing will change?

Speaker 1 (20:20):
You know what? I know why they changed it because
it's part of the box set. Yeah, and it doesn't
have its own. But I liked that so much more.

Speaker 5 (20:31):
But it still has it.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
It does well, it's the same. Well, yeah, it's the
same book. You know.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Take out a little bit of the artwork in the
ticket and slap the barcode in the middle, you know,
and still right, make it look like a ticket. You
don't have to make it white. You could have kept
it the off white color. I'm assuming and so it's you.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
You could just remove the remove the text that says
rock Forts Ski Express and with the barcode. Yeah, but
I don't know, but Melanie, like what, I don't have
a strong opinion on which one I love more. Well,
obviously we didn't talk about how the twenty fifth anniversary
has this super trendy yep, everyone's that's what we want

(21:18):
to see about side edge and we wanted to have
a side edge Bonanza episode.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
Well, we just wanted to talk about like book trends,
and like we just keep talking about that trends.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
Yes, because the like side edges are so in right now,
like every I feel like every book people are so
much more commonly like judging a book by its cover
and judging a book by its side edge, like big time,
like so fetch it is, it's so fetch. I have

(21:53):
very strong opinions about both. I know you're saying you
don't have strong opinions one way or another.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
I think, well, I like it, like I generally, I
like them. I like that it's different enough. If they
had done the same book with a sprayed side edge,
I think I would have been a little disappointed. No,
I might not have, but no, I would have been
because that seemed very like cheap cop out, like they
did with you.

Speaker 5 (22:16):
No, that's definitely something that I like and like. Don't
get me wrong.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
If Scholastic had done what Slovak did, for like from
the twentieth anniversary to the twenty fifth, where say we
got Brian sealsnick Art, and then they took the Brian
Seales nick Art, updated the just the logo, and did
a side edge on the Brian salesnick Art, I would
be stoked about it. I am stoked about this book obviously.
That's why I like I had to have it again

(22:43):
because it's Slovak. However, I do think that there are
some quality issues with the twenty fifth anniversary. Number one
is the image is not centered properly from top to
bottom and mine you could tell, like it is very
tiny spacing at the top and a wider spacing at
the bottom. You don't see that, does yours not have that?

(23:11):
Show me the top of your Maybe it's just mine
has that, But look how tiny? Look how tiny?

Speaker 2 (23:21):
And my bottom is thinner.

Speaker 4 (23:22):
But see, like that's a quality control issue, like big
time if all three of our books are different. And
that's just like an attention to detail thing. But that
jumped out at me right away, especially in comparison to
the twentieth. The twentieth is perfectly centered. It looks stunning.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
Mine's identical.

Speaker 5 (23:42):
Well, lucky you. I don't know what to tell you.

Speaker 4 (23:47):
I also think and maybe it's just because like this
was trendy at the time, but like because this is
a twentieth anniversary it came out at Slash around the
same time is the twentieth anniversary German books, which I
would compare these two. The font is very similar, like

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steampunk kind of style to that font, and I feel
like it stands out so beautifully on the twentieth anniversary,
and I feel like the gold foiling almost takes away
that because it's one color versus like the shading and
shadowing that you get in the font on the twentieth
If that makes sense, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
I can see that. I think I appreciate the gold
foiling on the newer one because I have the older one.

Speaker 5 (24:37):
Yeah, No, I like I get that. I get that.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
I like the font on you that it's gold and
shiny because it's different. But I also like that the
old one has it's not just yeah, I mean solid
gold cover font like they do on some of the
Grand Prey arts, like from Poland it was just solid yellow.

Speaker 5 (24:57):
I just think, like, for me, this is like luck.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
I like the fact that the font is also glossy
when the rest of the book is matt like, it's
beautiful that they did that. See the way that the
like the German Anniversary book is done. I would have
almost preferred to see where it's not solid gold foiling,
it's like gold foiling accent to the logo that's already there.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
I feel like that would have that I would I
would prefer that too if I if they had called
me up from Bratislava and we're like, hey, we're thinking
of putting foil on the twenty fifth anniversary, so wow,
let me tell you an idea.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
In general, I just think that the quality of the
twentieth seems to be a bit tighter than the twenty fifth,
Like I think that the squareness of it holds up
a bit better. Like I have just some like travel bumps,
I guess from and not for nothing, I bought books

(25:59):
from Carly. I want to say, my whole life, I've
bought books from Carly. I know that this wasn't her,
Like she shipped and shipped this and packaged it so
pristinely that I know that this is how she got
the book, you know. So it has like some little
there's just like bumps because of the fact that this
is rounded, it just like creases easier. The top, like

(26:23):
the top of the spine on mine, just creases a bit,
and even the corners seem to like mold a bit
more than the sharpness of the twentieth.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
I just think that the twentieth is just so sharp.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
It is sharp. But the feel of the books are
the same, which like they use the same material, just
a different.

Speaker 5 (26:49):
Shape, buttery soft.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
About how about the other two members of our show?
What do you think?

Speaker 4 (26:55):
Carly has been so quiet literally this whole episode, and
I know that she loves the book, but Peter his
hand like such a good boy.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
I know. Can I just interrupt real quick? This is
totally off topic, but this is also kind of fun
for the listeners because this is like what collectors do
for each other, where they're buying books for each other.
So I'm on Amazon placing the order. The books will
get here, the menileium of books will get here by
the fourteenth, right, But I wanted to just make sure
that Eric and Carly, if you guys need any of

(27:23):
the books signed, if you want me to purchase books
for you, two or not, so I've got your I've
got Askaban for you.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
How much are they.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
They're twenty six pounds plus shipping? So total for the
three books is one hundred and fourteen pounds.

Speaker 5 (27:42):
Okay, everyone's looking at that, ya, I know I'm in.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
All I have is the book plate chamber for me, please,
because I only have I only have Bloomsbury Book one
and that's the only sign when I have so chamber. Okay,
seems ask No, I don't okay, I don't need them
all signed. I think it'd be cool. Eric, I had
one with the Okay, what what?

Speaker 3 (28:09):
What? What?

Speaker 5 (28:10):
They're only they only have three books. It's only ever
gonna be three.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, okay, fine, fine, Peter, both of them do both
knuckle ahead?

Speaker 5 (28:19):
Why would you just get.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (28:22):
All right? So all right, so just double checking. So
we've got four Askaban and three chambers because mel you
have Chamber signed, right.

Speaker 5 (28:32):
Yeah, I'm just gonna like double check like super.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
Click, just real quick like check I have real quick. Okay,
now I have.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
I know.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
It would be silly not to take advantage of such
a neat opportunity.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, I'm glad you said that after I decided to
get both of them instead of one, like.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
You know, I was gonna say that if you were
like nasty chamber.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Like what.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
You Okay, all right, So four Askaman and three chamber,
all right, cool?

Speaker 1 (29:08):
You don't make it, make it fifty, make it fifty.
Ask fifty of them, fifty.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Of them, and no needs Philosopher's Stone. You're all good
with philosophers Stone.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Okay, all right, Now that book sucks. I'm kidding, can
you imagined? Like I don't like that first one, but
the other ones are great.

Speaker 5 (29:25):
Wait, I don't even like Harry Potter.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
I don't even like Harry Potter.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
I just you've seen. But here, wait, do you guys
know what that's from?

Speaker 1 (29:36):
I missed what you said.

Speaker 5 (29:37):
And there's an episode of.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
Parks and Wreck where like Anne and Leslie are fighting
and Anne is like, she's like, you made me watch
like all eight Harry Potter movies. I don't even like
Harry Potter. And she's like, what do you mean you
don't like Harry Potter?

Speaker 5 (29:52):
You've seen all ate movies. It's yeah, what do you
mean you don't like Philosopher's You've read it eight thousand times.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
That reminded me of like when people are like I
didn't like the cake, so why did you eat the
whole piece?

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (30:09):
I love cake.

Speaker 5 (30:10):
I was gonna say, you can't leave the cakes.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Cake is so when it's done, well, it's delicious.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
We had a grilled kebabs tonight and the steak was
so bad, like the cut of the meat was.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
I was not expecting you to say bad.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
No.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
We all took a bite and we're just kind of
like looking at each other like no that. I was like,
this is terrible. That was.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
Yesterday.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
We had that experience. Terrible.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
I don't know what the deal is. We did surfry
last night and Alana I just looked at each other.
I was like, this thing come out good. I'm very disappointed.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
No, it wasn't. It was not the chef. It was
definitely the cut of because the chicken kebob turned out great.
The steak one was just terrible. Steak was off, steaks off.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
Last question for you guys, do you want them dedicated
or just signed?

Speaker 5 (31:01):
Signed?

Speaker 2 (31:02):
My is just signed, so yeah, let me know.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
It would be silly to not take advantage of.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
I have other things dedicated from them. I wanted my
sign and be dedicated to me.

Speaker 5 (31:20):
Oh that's such a good.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Well, you guys want to know, think about it and
I'll you know. And yeah, because we got to get
back to slow blok.

Speaker 5 (31:26):
Oh, it's like an I'm having like an argument with So.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
I've been silent because one I've been buying these books,
but also because I don't have the other one to
compare it to. So Carly, it's all on you. You're silent.
Now you talk, talk talk, I will talk.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
So I I really didn't have a chance to compare
the two because I could not reach my twentieth anniversary
slovak and I could barely get it off. There's almost
a catastrophe while I was getting my Slovak off the shelf.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
But I used to, Oh, you do work at a hospital.
You could always call nine on one and be like,
I need a ride to work. It's me Carl to
say that it's me Carly. I can't get up. You
know I have a shift in an hour, please.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
I have some really funny stories about that. But anyway,
when I saw the one with this braid side, I
was like, oh my gosh, that's my favorite. But when
I look at the twentieth anniversary independently of the other,
it's it's my favorite. So I think it's one where
it's easy to have a preference for the twentieth anniversary

(32:36):
because it's the first one that we'd seen like it,
and we tend to have to have a tendency to
prefer things that we saw first rather than second. So
you see that in all sorts of things. So I
think that makes sense why like, I could never sell
this book because I have this one. It's not replaceable,
even if this weren't signed, Like, it's absolutely not replaceable.

(32:59):
I'm really loving the rounded spine on the twenty fifth
anniversary because my hands are small. This would be really
hard for me to hold. I couldn't imagine holding like
book five, six seven because of the squareness of it.
It wouldn't do well. This one I can do, so

(33:19):
I do prefer that, although, like Melanie's saying, it does
create problems here at the bottom of the spine. So
it's it's one where you just have to if I
were going to read it, be like, yeah, it's great.
This one is actually bound so tightly I can't open it.
So I love that, like super well done. I wish
they'd changed the end papers to like a different color,

(33:40):
like maybe the red to match the the side edge
a bit more. They kept the same papers as the
twentieth anniversary, but I.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
Mean, what I do they do. They did take the
images from the end papers and put them on the spine,
so that would have been a really easy palette swap
like they already had, right, they could have matched. But
I still do like that they matched the shapes from
the end papers on the spine. I do like.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Like if I were to see them on the shelf,
I would know which one is which because one is
just a little bit more zazzed up on the spine.
I love that so I think it's it's one where
I love. Yeah, I like how this one's more muted.
It looks like it has a filter on. It's just
very soft colors. I love that. I love the color
palette this one. It looks like they went in and

(34:31):
just made everything richer if you look at the the edges,
like the boards themselves around the art, it's a little
bit deeper brown on the twenty fifth anniversary. And so
it's it's one where I mean, how do you compare
two perfect things?

Speaker 5 (34:51):
That's yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
At the same time, I I couldn't not have this,
knowing how amazing it is. But I also would not
be disappointed that I didn't get it because I already
have this, if that makes sense.

Speaker 5 (35:08):
So I don't I get it.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
I I enjoy them because they're different enough that book
collected me is like, cool, you can buy the other six,
and the other part of me is like, no, stupid,
you can't. I mean I could.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
I feel I would really associate it, like I feel
like having the twentieth and having the whole set of
the twentieth. I feel satiated having just book one of
the twenty fifth that it like I have the foiling
I have the side edge and have that experience on

(35:42):
this book. I feel like I don't need the whole
set because I feel like the twenty.

Speaker 5 (35:48):
Fifth was like meant to be.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
I don't feel like I feel like this stuff to
complete anything. I feel like it's one of those where
I would like it because it's different enough to add
a little bit of unique fla to the collection. But
it's not a needed thing. It's not like I need
the second translation of Croatian Books six and seven, which
I keep forgetting to buy. It's not like that. It's

(36:11):
just if I were to get the book too, of
the twenty fifth anniversary edition, I wouldn't give myself a
hard time because it'd be like cool, it's different enough
that I can justify it. Did I need it all?

Speaker 1 (36:22):
You know?

Speaker 3 (36:23):
No?

Speaker 2 (36:23):
I didn't. But would I return it?

Speaker 1 (36:26):
No?

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Why would I do that? So I think it's kind
of like having I think it's like going into like
a great bakery and having to choose between your favorite
two cupcakes.

Speaker 6 (36:37):
What do you do?

Speaker 2 (36:38):
You just buy both and leave and just eat them?

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Yeah, which do you eat?

Speaker 5 (36:43):
First?

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Get the ice cream and the cupcake?

Speaker 6 (36:45):
Which we've done.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Which we've done.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
We got ice cream on the way to buy cupcakes.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
Literally sometimes you got to that. Yeah, we were both.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Coming off of heavy like Keto. Yeah, we had lost
our minds.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
Stilly gooses a bunch of still yees over here, all right.

Speaker 4 (37:08):
So all in all, I still think that the Mary
grimd Prey is like the Bread and Butter Like it's
in my opinion, like you need to have that book
because it is just the best spelling book. However, if
you had to pick just one out of these three,

(37:31):
I would pick the twentieth.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
If I had to pick just one out of the three,
I would pick none of them because I couldn't make up,
and I would leave the store very madly.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
Of the original. You would choose the twentieth over.

Speaker 4 (37:46):
The original, like Adrian mancho over Mary grand Prey. Yeah, yeah,
I would pick Adrian Macho without I mean.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
Yeah, it's a gorgeous book, but I feel like me
as a collector, I want to have like the earliest version.
So I got that Grand Prey.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
That's the reason I kept the Mary grand Prey Slovak
is I sold my Dudle Slovak. I kept the Marry
grand Prey simply because it was first. But I don't
like it more than the others, Like it's exactly I'm not.
I don't plan on I don't plan on completing the
Marriagran Preise Slovak set. I have a lot of Merry
Grand Prey books. I don't need six more So, while

(38:26):
I hear the well made yeah, well, I think the
Marragrand Prey are well made for the Slovak books. So
are the twentieth and twenty fifth anniversary, so I'm not
missing out on that experience either. I've almost sold this
one a lot, but then it's like, well then I
wouldn't have the cool dedication in Slovak, and then I
would have to find another one, because I don't like

(38:47):
to sell book ones I can sell like other books
like the Lithuanian Books two through to seven. I may
sell of the Marragrand Prey at some point because I've
got enough for a Merrygran Prey on my shelves.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
Harley, You've I think you're like you're convincing me that
if I were to choose between the three, I wouldn't
choose any of them either. It's like you've just convinced me, Yeah,
like I couldn't.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
I couldn't choose if I were at the store, like
I would look at them and angrily walk away because
I don't know which one i'd pick.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
I can't pick all three. It's like, yeah, oh man,
that's wow, that's that was a weird experience that I
just went through in my as you're.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
Talking like Peter, Peter probably just had he probably had
that moment of wait, should I just sell all of
my books?

Speaker 1 (39:36):
Should wait?

Speaker 3 (39:37):
Should I just sell my books?

Speaker 4 (39:38):
I Peter, you used to say that, and I was like, Peter,
I couldn't imagine selling all of my books. And now
every so often I get a maybe I'll just sell
all my books, like I do get that every so often.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
It would be a great like like film content three
months in advance, and then one day, Jesu, it's like
you just change the logo and it's like the collector,
the collector, the collector, and.

Speaker 4 (40:09):
He starts like showing his like fossils, and he's like
digging at like with no excavations, with.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
No reference or mentioned to the past collection. Never talk
about him. I'm Peter, and I'm the collector.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
Are collector?

Speaker 1 (40:27):
I collect I'm a collector.

Speaker 5 (40:30):
I'm a collect things I collect blow molds of all
the reindeer. I collect.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
Pieces of chocolate cake, it fossils, pieces of gorgeous floor rite.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
Okay, but what's so funny is you mentioned like nothing nothing.
I have invitations from three different diggers to go dig
with them this summer.

Speaker 5 (41:01):
So is that amazing?

Speaker 3 (41:03):
You bring in my camera such a freaking cool that's
so cool. Try to make it work.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
I think that's a separate that's a sub channel.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
There you go, yeah channel, That's okay. So I guess
I'll keep my collect my Potter collector collection.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
Make the logo the same, and then like like just
just rip the middle word out and just put something else.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
In there, like the Jurassic Parks slash Yeah, collector.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Then you just and then you and then you tape
a thing over the.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Top like that, or you could lift the dinosaur. It'll
off of Goblet of Fire, the Persian book Goblin, and
then just have that be part of your logo so
you still have your books in there. But it would work.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
And it's like one of those if you know, you
know situations, mm hmm, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
I like that. I think to give myself a quick
answer to our question about which of the three. If
I saw a picture of all three of them and
that was it, like, which one you want? I would
absidenttals take the twenty fifth with the sprayed edge. If
I had just seen a picture I was like, which
one of these three do you think looks the coolest?

(42:15):
I would say this one for sure. That doesn't mean
it's my favorite. That's if I was presented with the option,
that's what I would pick.

Speaker 5 (42:23):
And let's talk about why. In our translation of the.

Speaker 6 (42:27):
Show, Tuda, well done, well done, all right, it's good.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
A little hot in here?

Speaker 5 (43:03):
Whoa all the transitions?

Speaker 1 (43:09):
That was the transition of the show. It was it was.
That was also the dad joke of the show.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
I was about to say that it's been a while, yeah,
but Peter had a great dad joke the last time
we recorded. What was it, I don't remember, but it
was great. You had the dad joke of the show
is very early in.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
Wow, I'm so proud of myself.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
Well you should be. Usually Eric gets went in and
you beat him.

Speaker 5 (43:38):
So we used have like a jingle for it. It's
the joke of the show.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
A lot harder. Yeah, we should get that. Maybe Tommy
can splice one Oh, and that would be awesome. We
should do that. You're making a note of that, Melanie.

Speaker 5 (43:57):
Dear Diary, Dear Tommy.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
You're of the show anyway, Carly tell us, yes, let's
run through this. But we've already talked about it.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
We've talked about it quite a bit. But the translation
of the show is Surprise, Surprise, the twenty fifth anniversary
translation of the Slovak Books, so published by E. Carr
and translated by Yana Petrova. Sorry, Yanna petrol cove.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
Vah, I love how you're like. I'm so sorry. I
messed it up. It was like I couldn't even get
close to what you just did, ability to read a
name like that, because I couldn't.

Speaker 5 (44:44):
Well, I'm terrible at those.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
I'm sure it was still wrong, but I tried. I
gave it the dialogue Alley try it was right to
so well, Yes, well.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
Done, you speak very good French.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
How difficult is this book to get? I just ordered
five of them from the publisher, So not hard you
just order You ordered.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
Five of them, but couldn't order six because they didn't.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
Have sick.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
They didn't have six. But I guess I didn't try
when I pre ordered the check also, you know what I.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Mean, so easy to get, but I bought them all.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
I actually ordered from Martinez dot s K. I believe
it is who I've bought the twenty twentieth anniversary books from,
and I pre ordered the check twenty fifth anniversary books from.
And I just realized I pre ordered like for six
people in the discord and I forgot myself. So I'm
gonna have to buy another book myself.

Speaker 5 (45:45):
I did.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
I counted, like I I went through several times, and
I counted the people that said they wanted and I
ordered exactly that many books.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
I do that too. It's like you're you're at like
a party or like you're hosting a party, and you
count the amount of people and then yeah, forget to
count myself.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
Oh, so that's exactly what I did to put another
place setting out.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
I've gotta at some point re order some books from there,
but they're out. You know, the books are are found findable.
You just have to kind of look at commerce sites
in Europe. And I it was about thirty dollars ship

(46:26):
with group shipping, so not bad honestly for the cost
of a new book with Yeah, not bad at all.
I guess we could do the top scale.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
I guess, I guess if if we have to.

Speaker 5 (46:45):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
So my twenty fifth anniversary does not smell as nicely
as my twentieth anniversary.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
Mine doesn't either.

Speaker 5 (47:02):
I don't know it changed, but I can't.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
Even smell my twenty fifth anniversary weird, Like I can't
even smell. It's crazy because the smell good, powerful, right.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
In the room.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
So I think because of how disappointed I am that
it doesn't have the same smell, I'm really having a
hard time not giving it like a troll do it.
But that's simply because I'm trying to compare it to
the twentieth. I need to be objective. I need to
be objective here.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
Put the twentieth down. Maybe for this, maybe everyone needs
to put their twentieth down.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
Yeah, I don't like it. I'm giving it. I'm giving
it a poor I really don't like it. Maybe it's
because my allergies are just like no, like, I smell it,
and mine.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
Kind of smells like bad socks at a shoe store.
It's not a good smell.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Well, I'm wondering if it's because the sprayed side edge
I wonder.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
If that really would be you know, honestly, Yeah, because it.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
Does smell more like chemically chemical.

Speaker 5 (48:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
I think that's what what we're picking up on, because
I just smelled and my my twentieth smells delightful, and
then this one smells like the Evil Twin.

Speaker 5 (48:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
No, thellare what your friend said.

Speaker 5 (48:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:26):
I was so excited about the book and I like
unwrapped it this morning and I was like, guys, you
have they saw me smelling it once I took it
out of the package. I like, well, why are you
smelling that book? And I was like, it's just this
thing I do. It's hard to explain.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
Don't worry about it.

Speaker 5 (48:41):
I was like, but then I.

Speaker 4 (48:42):
Smelled the book and I was and I went to
my friend Cat. I was like, Cat, smell this book.
And she's like, well, this book smells like butts. She
said something else, but it smells like butts, and I
smelled it again. I was like, no, it smells pretty good.
I'd given an acceptable though, considering the fact that the
Mary Grind Prey and the twentieth both smell absolutely fantastic

(49:05):
and not for nothing, Peter, if you want a real treat,
grab your.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
Whole box set and just like.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
Take a whiff one of those, like the whole box
set together smells so good.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
I like, okay, I know one of the books out
in the middle, so there's like the space of the book,
and then I I it was in there. Oh it's great,
and like, I know, is this probably like Chamber of
Secrets size baby?

Speaker 3 (49:32):
I don't know, maybe I said I. You know, I
was the one who was like, oh, put your books down, guys,
and don't compare them. But here, well, okay, I'm allowed
to do it because I don't have a twenty fifth anniversary,
but you guys aren't allowed. But but I picked up
my my Mary grand Prey one and smelled it, and
it smells almost like an og like first printing Philosopher's Stone.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
It smells so good.

Speaker 5 (49:57):
It's a beautifully it's the best smelling book of all time.
It's so nice, it's so good.

Speaker 4 (50:07):
I have to do this as well, because this is
the other book that smells, the German one I just
laying around, also carried around in German like just in case,
you know, because I remember saying that this one smelled

(50:30):
like super super good, like we loved how this book smelled,
but it's nothing in comparison to Slovak.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
For me, slow book, Slow Book reminds me a little
bit of a bakery. Like it's just that's so sweet
and delicious.

Speaker 5 (50:45):
It's just just it smells like it's woodsy and inky
and it's and if.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
You smell the topic, it smells different than if you
stick your nose in the book. But they all smell good.
This one smells more like shoestore in the book smells
more like a bake. You win.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Ey.

Speaker 4 (51:02):
I love that we're talking so much about how the
book smells, but like I feel like, because it's Slovak,
like this is necessary.

Speaker 5 (51:09):
This isn't necessary. This has to happen.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
We have.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
I just had the best holiday gift idea for you,
but it's not a real gift, so I'd have to
make it. So I'm just going to tell you what
it is because it doesn't exist. Like what if there
was like a like a perfume or cologne bottle that
was like this book just like candle sized and it's
sprint and it spreads out the scent of this.

Speaker 4 (51:33):
Point, Oh my god, I mean that'd be pretty phenomenal,
except it would have to be, but I.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
Don't know how. I don't know how I could like
extract that scent for you.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
And it's just so good.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
It's just so good they smell so the weird smell
on the twenty fifth is the spray side edge. After
investigating a little bit more, yeah, I agree.

Speaker 5 (51:52):
I I'm not not a fan. It just like it's eh, disappointing.
It gets anacceptable so.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
Size and proportions of the twenty fifth, I mean it's
a perfect book for me, so it's going to be
outstanding outstanding.

Speaker 4 (52:14):
Yeah, it's still given outstanding. I love the size and
proportion of the twentieth. If this is the same size
and proportion, I would give an outstanding Well.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
Wait wait, wait wait, Carl, you were poor, Eric, you
were poor? And then Mal you're acceptable for the smell?

Speaker 1 (52:29):
Yes? Yeah, were you dreadful or no, I'm poor.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
I smelled it objectively as well, and I'm still poor.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
I'm acceptable. But if it was D for disappointing, I
would be D. But it's just going to be acceptable.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
If there was a B for blow expectations, it would
be a BEE.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Yeah, I think because it was like I had these
expectations that were way high it was, and it's not
that it smells bad independently. It smells bad compared to
the previous and.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
It's it's not.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Yeah, it's so disappointing. It's definitely below expectations.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
I feel like I keep derailing the conversation because I'm
left out on purpose, but like I actually did want to,
I don't. I wasn't clear of what your things, what
your your your ratings were, so anyway, okay, sorry, back
to sizing.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Peter's got a giant whiteboard and he's writing.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
And writing everything down, yeah, like a graph, trying to
figure out the correlations.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
Outstanding size and proportions. Everyone, yes, okay, yes, how so
how it feels in my hand is going to be
outstanding plus because I love the rounded spine.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
I think it's an outstanding for me too. It feels
so similar to the other one. And yeah, the texture
of the cover, I know the tech I wanted to
point that out again.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
I'm going to give mine an oh minus if that's
at all possible, because the thing is is like I
feel you.

Speaker 5 (54:11):
Know what, you know what?

Speaker 1 (54:11):
Now?

Speaker 3 (54:12):
Is that possible? I say it's not possible. I'm not kidding,
it's not possible to.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
Vote no to give it a minus. I don't know
what I'm voting for.

Speaker 4 (54:21):
I said, Carly invented the plus minus system.

Speaker 5 (54:26):
You can't.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
That's true.

Speaker 5 (54:29):
No, you know what. I'm going to take it back.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
I invented the O E plus minus all right, plus.

Speaker 5 (54:36):
Here's what I'm going to say.

Speaker 4 (54:38):
If I was comparing it to the twentieth, which I
feel like it's not fair to this book, if I
was comparing it to the twentieth, I would say that
it would be like an O minus. However, I'm going
to say that it feels outstanding. I like the spine,
how it feels in my hand, like the curve of
the spine. I am missing that glossy logo against the

(55:00):
matte texture that I really like in the twentieth. However,
we're not comparing here. We're doing it on its own.
It still has that beautiful buttery texture, so I will
still give it an oh.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
I think that's fair.

Speaker 5 (55:14):
I'm trying to be fair. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
F for fair.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
So quality for me is weird because the quality of
the Slovak books is pretty outstanding just by itself, like
their expectations for their production is high. You can tell
by all the books that they've made. However, the gold
foiling that they used for the twenty fifth, I really
think if you were going to pull it on and

(55:40):
off the shelf or read it a bit, touch it
a lot, I could see it flaking pretty easily, because
I've already got some flakes on mine and i haven't
touched it, so it just came that way. So I
think the quality of the gold foiling is not the best.
I could be wrong, but I've already got like a
little through the age, so and I could have just

(56:00):
been a production era when they're putting it on more
than likely it was. But gold foiling, as we know
from like other Harry Potter books, over time, has a
tendency to be problematic, and this like if you look closely,
there's a little bit of bubble and rippling under the
gold foiling in Harry Potter, and if that's the case,
it may start to peel. So it may not be

(56:23):
as strong of quality as the twentieth as far as
the lettering goes, because this hasn't aged at all, like
quite frankly, I know it's comparison again, but it's hard
not to. And the twentieth looks and feels brand new,
not that this one doesn't, and it should it is,
but I'm worried about the gold foiling, especially like on
the spine. So I'm gonna like quality. I can't really

(56:47):
say because it's not a ding in quality necessarily.

Speaker 3 (56:52):
For me.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
It's just something I've noticed that could become a problem later,
but I we're not at later, so I can't judge that.
So I'm gonna keep my usual outstanding rating, but with
reservations to go down to like acceptable.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
Given an all minus cotton, uh, okay.

Speaker 4 (57:20):
I'm giving mine n exceeds expectations for everything I was
saying before about the image not being centered properly on
the cover.

Speaker 5 (57:32):
If this was just shifted.

Speaker 4 (57:34):
Down like a quarter of a centimeter, I would say
that it was a perfect outstanding, but that I can
live with the little like dinginess that happens on the spine.
It's really not the end of the world to me,
but looking at it and seeing so much space on
the bottom and the teeniest bit of space on top

(57:55):
is just disappointing.

Speaker 5 (57:58):
Another d for disappointing.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
And again, if I didn't have the twenties to compare
it to, I don't think we would be disappointed.

Speaker 4 (58:07):
I would have see I would have still noticed that,
though I would have noticed that right away.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
This is that I didn't have noticed. I would not
like look at that if if I were to not
see other people's books, like if I were to just
see mine as it is, because mine's the opposite of yours.
If I were to just see mine as it is,
I would have thought, oh, they did it intentionally, because
it's straight on, it's just shifted down, and I've seen
where that's a thing. So if I wouldn't have seen

(58:31):
other people's I would have just made that assumption.

Speaker 4 (58:34):
So yeah, no, I noticed it immediately upon opening the book.
I was like, why is the image not right?

Speaker 2 (58:43):
But I wouldn't have known that whether or not it
was intentional. I think if I didn't have.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
Very Bloomsbury hardcover and paperback, where it's like you never
know if like like if you look at I'm looking
right now, I have like three in a row of
philosophers stone heart covers, and the young wizard like, oh,
this one his his head is his hat is cut off,
but now you can see this. Then the one to
the left you can see his whole entire head. So

(59:11):
it's it's kind of that it feels.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
Like, I guess, lack of consistency, kind of.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
Lack of consistency and quality control.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
So the Russian, the first Russian translation with the Merry
Grand Prey books, their Sorceras Stone has so many problems
with their bottom borders, their top borders that that really
does change the layout of the book because there's no
consistency between prints. What else, Yeah, oh oh yeah, I'm

(59:47):
cover art interpretation of cover art. I mean, it's Adrian
Macho's work, so I have to give it an outstanding.
It's phenomenal.

Speaker 1 (59:57):
That's it all for me. I like that they kept
it the same, but I like, I do like that
it's got a different color saturation then the first one.
It makes it a little bit different. And I don't
know if I prefer one over the other, just like
I don't know which Johnny Duddell cover I prefer, because
if you take all the first books, the hues are different.

(01:00:18):
Some of the purples are purple, or some of the
indigos are indie indiego or I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
I say that word do the in the artwork on
the twenty on the twenty fifth to like the lens
flares show up, because like on the twentieth, there's like
almost lens flares behind Harry's head and yeah, underneath.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
The quid they definitely show there's still Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
I just love that. It's it's like he took a picture,
like someone's in a room and took a picture and
they're lens flares. It's just it's it's such a slight
detail and it highlights Harry's face and it's just it's
a gorgeous, you almost piece of artwork.

Speaker 5 (01:00:55):
You almost see it like a bit more if anything.
On the twenty fifth, I mean cool.

Speaker 4 (01:01:00):
I think interpretation of the cover are interpreting the differences
between this and this, like this is where we can compare, right,
because it's like how it was interpreted based on the original.
It's definitely an outstanding I like that they changed the logo.
I love that they changed the color saturation because I

(01:01:22):
while I think I prefer the softer original colors, I
like that they decided to change it for the twenty fifth.
I think that that was a really cool, Like unless
you were holding the two books next to each other,
you wouldn't notice, but once you do, notice it. You're like, Wow,
that's a really cool change that they made.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
Yeah, it's it's me wonder like what the actual, like
the intended color saturation level was on the original piece.
It makes me wonder what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
That's a really good question.

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
Actually, get my hagrid. I could get my hagrid. I
feel like that would be like a good judge of
that if we wanted to take a look. See you guys,
keep talking old please I'll go do that. I'm still here.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
I I'm actually really enjoying doing this. We haven't got
to compare books like this.

Speaker 5 (01:02:17):
I know it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
I know I'm not like not straight on like this
and not when the quality is just and the artwork
is stunning in both right, So it's it's a fun thing.
Like it may sound like we're nitpicky, but it's only
because the books themselves are pretty much perfection anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
It's like you said, how do you compare perfect with perfect?

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:02:36):
Yeah, I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
It's only it's only because we don't have anyone else
we can talk to two about want to talk to
any This is.

Speaker 5 (01:02:47):
So beautiful, guys.

Speaker 4 (01:02:50):
Sorry, I haven't looked No, I haven't looked at this
like since I bought it, and I really I really
need to frame it because it's honestly just like unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (01:02:59):
But like that's so beautiful.

Speaker 5 (01:03:01):
Yeah, I mean, come on, that's unreal.

Speaker 4 (01:03:09):
See, it's hard to kind of gauge whether or not
it's supposed to be like more soft versus bold. I
think that in this it really is like it's a
soft bolder kind of It's like it looks you can see,
you know, when you write in like ballpoint pen, and
you can kind of see like the sheen of it,

(01:03:30):
like some of the details are kind of done in
a ballpoint pen like that.

Speaker 5 (01:03:34):
It's honestly, it's absolutely unbelievable. I have to frame this.
It needs to go on Bennett's room.

Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
Like that's so delightful, that's so cool. I love that.
I love that Hagrid.

Speaker 5 (01:03:47):
It's my favorite.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
Could you not want to be friends with Hagrid? Who
looks like that?

Speaker 5 (01:03:52):
That is my absolute favorite Hagrid.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
Yeah, yeah, delightful. So in short, I think this book
the twenty fifth anniversary is differently delightful from the twentieth
and I'm so glad it's in my collection. And I'm
sorry I put off buying it. Yeah, I think.

Speaker 5 (01:04:11):
X factor.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
I don't even know. Yeah, yeah, but I mean like
it's one of those that of course it's this brad
side edge, but like there's so many little nuances that
I think you could choose from.

Speaker 1 (01:04:26):
I think the side edge is like, to me, like
an X factor if this was on the shelf and
you didn't know and you pulled it out.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
I'm actually very tempted to put this on my shelf
this way out because it is so much fun. Out
of all this braid side edges, this is by far
the best detailed.

Speaker 4 (01:04:43):
One that would be so trendy if you put the
side edge out. That's what everyone.

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
Well, I did that with my house editions, like my
houses other countries, they're all facing out.

Speaker 5 (01:04:55):
Oh no, actually they're all up there, but so trendy.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
Yeah, I'll probably put.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
Them on your shelf. You stacked your books horizontally.

Speaker 5 (01:05:05):
I've been in the color order.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
I've not done reverse reverse Roygibif. No.

Speaker 4 (01:05:14):
Maybe my next house, like when I have like a
proper like library, like built ins, I'll do the color order.

Speaker 5 (01:05:23):
Just for funzies.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
There's a lot of classrooms at my school that have
their shelves in color order, and it looks so cool.
One time I was trying to actually find a book
and it was like from a series and I knew
like that one was there. There were all different color
spines in the series. I can't remember which series it was,
but I could not find it. So like, uh, it's

(01:05:46):
what color is? I don't know green blue. Yeah, it's
not an alphabetical order.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
I would I wouldn't want to try to reorganize that
after all of that, So I would probably never do
color order on my bookshelves one day.

Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
Okay, but also, when are we going to get a
new translation? I should say translations should.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
Say question, I would like a new language.

Speaker 1 (01:06:13):
And that's all that.

Speaker 4 (01:06:14):
Never mind, we have more time, Peter, I feel like
you're the one language out of.

Speaker 5 (01:06:20):
Like start messaging people. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
Maybe we can ask arun like if he through his
like translator community, like something, if he knows someone that
speaks some language that we don't have.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
What was the last week Hebrew? We have?

Speaker 5 (01:06:42):
The last ones were Yiddish.

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
You just need Aish.

Speaker 3 (01:06:50):
Hawaiian was Bella?

Speaker 5 (01:06:51):
Russian was relatively recent?

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
Maori Maori?

Speaker 3 (01:06:56):
Yeah, oh yeah true?

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
Maori was COVID yeah, Mary was Covid.

Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
It's been a bit.

Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
Yeah, we had a new language and our newest one
or Yiddish.

Speaker 4 (01:07:07):
I think they all it was Yidi came out, like
the three of them came out around the same time.

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
And I'm not even I'm not talking to like a
new language of you know, Askaban.

Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
You know, it's like I want a new I want
a new Philosopher's Stone language stone.

Speaker 3 (01:07:25):
Yeah, me too.

Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
Yeah, Like I would love to continue to set, like
I would love the Chamber of Secrets and Maori to
come out, But I would also like a Philosopher's Stone
in a language we don't have yet to come out.

Speaker 6 (01:07:37):
With unique cover art.

Speaker 2 (01:07:39):
I would love that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
Yes, please asking a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:07:42):
Yeah, my go to's are always I don't think it's
going to be a language that is widely spoken like Swahili.
I don't think we're ever getting a Swahili.

Speaker 3 (01:07:53):
Gosh, can you imagine how cool that would.

Speaker 5 (01:07:55):
But the art would be amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
There was someone on one of the Facebook groups that
said he was selling something and he said he had
one in Swahili. I messaged him and I was like,
show me a picture please, Like, I know it's unauthorized
He's like, it's in a storage locker. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:08:14):
Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, you know what I got in.

Speaker 1 (01:08:17):
My storage locker. I can tell you about all that Rubies.
I am and I storage like, but I think it'll
I think it'll be a language similar to the Maori situation,
where I think it'll be a recognized language that people
want to preserve. So I'm thinking like Irish, Gaelic, or

(01:08:42):
I'm even even thinking some like more indigenous languages either.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
I would love Scotts Gaping, like, I wish they would
continue that they bought the ISBN, they could just you know, continue.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
Wait, I said, Irish Scale, Like, I mean Scott Scalek.

Speaker 5 (01:08:56):
Okay, sorry, Wellcote, we have no we have Scotts Scott's.
Oh my god, we have Scott's.

Speaker 1 (01:09:03):
Yeah. But I mean, you know, where I live, there's
a huge push for like the Ojibwe language to be preserved.
We just they recently did a translation of the of
the Star Wars, a New Hope movie. People like, it's

(01:09:26):
not a translation, boy, I'm tired dubbing. They dubbed it's
like the official dub that and most of the people
that did that were from Minnesota, So that was like
pretty big news here. But I think something like that,
where they're trying to preserve a language, that's that's going
to be our best bet. It's like I could see
that they used to try to grow the speaker.

Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
There's been so many times that's what they tried to
do with well partially anyway, what they were trying to
do with Breton. But it didn't work really well for
lots of reasons. But there are so many.

Speaker 1 (01:09:58):
Languages, was was not appealing enough to sell them.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
I love that cover. It was honestly because they from
what we were told, it was translated into neo Breton
and people couldn't read it. Also, Breton has no standardized
written anything, and there are some pretty wide variations or
dialects of Breton around, so there it's not mutually intelligible
between the dialects. Even so, all of those things make

(01:10:25):
it hard to pull a language together and to grow
when there's no standardization and it's pretty much relegated to
in home use that is. And Breton is such a
cool language. I would love to see it thriving. It
is so cool, but I would I wouldn't be surprised

(01:10:47):
if there were some like the languages that there are
big revitalization movements around. I wouldn't be surprised to see
books published from those things, like what Eric was saying,
because book publication making book books that might that kiddoways
want to read. And if we can get the language
into kid's mouths and into their brains, then it really

(01:11:07):
can be preserved so much better. And we've got to
get it into the kids. And Harry Potter is a
great way to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:15):
Yeah, that's actually maybe they'll do like aint, what about
Caveman Art.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
I do know the translation that was done, like.

Speaker 1 (01:11:27):
Ever type adver Ti'd be amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
Ever Type made a barcode translation of Alice in Wonderland.
You see the barcodes or the QR codes.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
Let's let's go or binary let's let's let's let's do it,
let's make this happen.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
The book would probably be Giganticsaurus. But well, I guess
they can make the symbols really really small.

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
But I don't even know where you'd start with some
of that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
And it's going to be micro engraved on a tungsten
ring where that's like.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
Lord of the Rings esque. It's so cool, just don't
start acting weird, no, or weirder. There are a lot
of things.

Speaker 4 (01:12:13):
Endangered languages like this that's really really odd, Like I'm
looking up like vulnerable versus like endangered languages and things
like that. So that's why seeing like Maori and Yiddish
become like Harry Potter books is really cool because they
are considered endangered languages.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
So well, it was the Breton that pulled me into
translation collecting anyway, and Peter told me there was a
Breton and I was like, oh my gosh, because I've
done a lot of Breton research when I was doing
my m A degrees and I I was so excited,
and then to find out it's kind of a flop
of a translation was is kind of heartbreaking.

Speaker 3 (01:12:50):
Actually yeah, I mean something like Cherokee would be fun,
like a.

Speaker 5 (01:12:56):
You know, I'll take anything.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
I would see. Well, I don't know how much I
even see being a possibility though, for like Navajo or
d N because they're trying to get there. Oh I
love Navajo. I have such a crush on that language
that in Greenlandic are my linguistic crushes. I love them

(01:13:23):
and I had no way too much about them. They're
so cool. You just don't understand. It is so cool
we had we had I got to hear Navajo at
work one night and I was just tickled. I stayed late.
I was like super creepy around the interpreter. I'm sure
because I was just watching everything like I didn't make
a sound. It was one of the neatest things I've

(01:13:43):
ever got to be a part of. It was so cool,
you guys.

Speaker 1 (01:13:51):
But yeah, you know what else?

Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
You know what else is cool?

Speaker 3 (01:13:55):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
We went the opposite direction cool, I said, what is cool?

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
Well, it's cool that we're going to end our show
right now.

Speaker 4 (01:14:05):
It's cool that this episode is twice as long as
we intended it to be.

Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
It's cool that we had so much fun talking about
things serious.

Speaker 5 (01:14:17):
Yeah, it was book chat in a really long time.

Speaker 3 (01:14:21):
So we just all tell you that it's cool. It's
cool that we had so much fun talking about books.
But as Eric was just saying, it's not cool.

Speaker 1 (01:14:30):
That that that is all the time that we have
today for you to listen to dialogue Alley, Yeah, boo,
it's all the time we have on the show. I'll
wrap this up quick. If you want to get in
touch with us, you can find us all on Instagram.

(01:14:52):
Carly's at All the Pretty Books, I'm on there at Eric,
Melanie's at the Harry Potter Collection, and Peter is at
the Potter Collector. You can also just message our show
directly at Dialogue Ellie Podcast. We have some websites you
can check them out. Just go to our website Dialogue
La dot com. And I mean you can figure out
all the other ones. Peter's that one, and that's it.

(01:15:15):
I can go into more things. Well, I should mention
that you can support us on Patreon. We're on there
if you want to support us in anyway, and we do,
like Carli mentioned, that actually is I should mention that
because when we get new books, like we did with
this new Slovak book, we oftentimes do group orders through

(01:15:36):
the members on our discord channel, which you have access
to by supporting us on Patreon, and that is just
a really good way to save the bottom line, to
save money on shipping, Like besides the cool people that
are on there, it's a good way to save money
on shipping if you want to get some of these
books from far away places. But again, big thanks to
all the people that do support us on Patreon. You

(01:15:58):
guys are amazing. And what else is amazing is that
it is now time to walk back through the archway
and into our daily lives, which in my case involves
going to sleep and we'll catch you next time.

Speaker 2 (01:16:09):
Bye bye see yeah bye

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