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-square9fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-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-square9fedilink
minus-squaredaisy lazarus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoI think the point is that the cover is never guaranteed to accurately represent the book. Quality of cover =/= quality of book
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoYeah, the point of a book cover is to sell the book…
minus-squarenetvor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThe point of a book cover is to cover the book.
minus-squarebrainrein@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 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.
I think the point is that the cover is never guaranteed to accurately represent the book.
Quality of cover =/= quality of book
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 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.