Well, my boy started reading Harry Potter at school. Many kids still want to read so I decided to get this set for my boy so he can read from Year 1. We are not a collector so this set works for us.

I love Harry Potter and this is my second time reading the series. However, I am very annoyed with this version of the book. The page numbers are way off. There are not 247 pages in this kindle book. In fact, many of the page numbers duplicate. The book is actually over 600 pages.

I first read the entire series when they came out and then decided to read it again while preparing for a trip to Universal studios.I put this on my iPad so it would be light enough to travel with! On book 7 now and am loving reading it again!!

I was disappointed to see that entire words were missing through out some of the books which made it difficult to read in some areas. By the time I reached those points in the books it was too late for a refund. There is more than this one page that had faded words, but this is the only picture I took to show as an example.
I suggest going through all of the books to make sure nothing like this has happened to you

I purchased the Bloomsbury red box set, which was published in the UK. I am clarifying because it seems that all of the reviews here are mixed together for various Harry Potter box sets. I have to say, these books do not photograph well. They are absolutely stunning in person. The dust jackets are a soft matte texture with shiny gold foil lettering. The pictures on the covers are deep, saturated, high contrast images, but for whatever reason, probably the matte texture, they show up kind of muted in photographs. They are like glowing jewels! I love them so much!

I thumbed through each book to check for obvious printing issues, since some people have reported creased pages, missing print, etc, but nothing jumped out at me at all. The only issue I have found so far is a slight bit of shipping damage to the red box the books are housed in. It is also a little difficult to get the books out if they are all inside together since there is nothing to grab onto, but you can just tip the box and they will start to slide out.

As for the stories themselves, I have only read one and the beginning of the second so far. We are late to the Harry Potter party, but my children and I are really enjoying the series. They are very engaging and enjoyable to read aloud to my crew. They always ask me to read another chapter when they could be running off to watch TV or play.