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-square43fedilinkarrow-up1241arrow-down160
arrow-up1181arrow-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-square43fedilink
minus-squaredorkian_gray@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoBut some book covers are badly designed, and the fact that they don’t represent the content of the book well is no fault of the author’s. (Okay I mean mostly authors have a big say in the book cover but still, not always)
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoThe US covers of Harry Potter (yeah I know) are awful and a good example of the artist having differently not read the book.
But some book covers are badly designed, and the fact that they don’t represent the content of the book well is no fault of the author’s.
(Okay I mean mostly authors have a big say in the book cover but still, not always)
The US covers of Harry Potter (yeah I know) are awful and a good example of the artist having differently not read the book.