Chriseindt@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year ago"Don't judge a book by its cover." is a bad idiom, because bookcovers are desinged to represent the content of the book.message-squaremessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1239arrow-down157
arrow-up1182arrow-down1message-square"Don't judge a book by its cover." is a bad idiom, because bookcovers are desinged to represent the content of the book.Chriseindt@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square39fedilink
minus-squaredaisy lazarus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up57·1 year agoI think the point is that the cover is never guaranteed to accurately represent the book. Quality of cover =/= quality of book
minus-squareRGB3x3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·1 year agoAlthough, I’ll never buy a book where the author’s name is in bigger, bolder font than the title of the book. I hate that trend in cover design and I refuse to support it.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 year agoDEAN KOONTZ Newbury Award Winner New York Time Best-Seller The Lake Boat First time in paperback! With a Foreward by David Baldacci
minus-square–Phase–@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoIs this still a thing? I thought this was mostly popular in the 90s and dropped out of popularity in the last couple decades.
minus-squarephorqlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoDefinitely still see it for Stephen King at least, but frankly I’d be creeped out if I saw his name small at this point…
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down2·1 year agoYeah, the point of a book cover is to sell the book…
minus-squarenetvor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoThe point of a book cover is to cover the book.
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoThat’s the point of a dust jacket.
minus-squarethemeatbridge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI thought the point of the dust jacket is to make books look shabby when they get crinkled and torn, so you can take it off and find a perfectly serviceable cover underneath.
minus-squarebrainrein@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·1 year agoThat’s one of the purposes of a cover, you could achieve it without any design effort. But that’s not the point, not the main purpose of a book cover. Your previous poster is right, the cover is advertising the book.
minus-squarengdev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoThe “cover art***” sells it, then. They were trying to be funny I think lol
I think the point is that the cover is never guaranteed to accurately represent the book.
Quality of cover =/= quality of book
Although, I’ll never buy a book where the author’s name is in bigger, bolder font than the title of the book.
I hate that trend in cover design and I refuse to support it.
DEAN KOONTZ
Newbury Award Winner
New York Time Best-Seller
The Lake Boat
First time in paperback!
With a Foreward by David Baldacci
Is this still a thing? I thought this was mostly popular in the 90s and dropped out of popularity in the last couple decades.
Definitely still see it for Stephen King at least, but frankly I’d be creeped out if I saw his name small at this point…
Yeah, the point of a book cover is to sell the book…
The point of a book cover is to cover the book.
That’s the point of a dust jacket.
I thought the point of the dust jacket is to make books look shabby when they get crinkled and torn, so you can take it off and find a perfectly serviceable cover underneath.
That’s one of the purposes of a cover, you could achieve it without any design effort.
But that’s not the point, not the main purpose of a book cover. Your previous poster is right, the cover is advertising the book.
The “cover art***” sells it, then. They were trying to be funny I think lol