@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-square38fedilinkarrow-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-square38fedilink
minus-square@netvor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink5•1 year agoThe point of a book cover is to cover the book.
minus-squarethemeatbridgelinkfedilink1•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-square@brainrein@feddit.delinkfedilink2•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-square@ngdev@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoThe “cover art***” sells it, then. They were trying to be funny I think lol
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