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2720588 No.2720588 [Reply] [Original]

how do you guys cover horrible book covers?

>> No.2720592

semen

>> No.2720598
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2720598

Those aren't really that bad, compared with the kind of stuff that Baen put on their covers.

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>>2720598

>> No.2720605

>>2720598
There's absolutely nothing wrong with that cover.

>> No.2720608

Tolkien books with movie covers, holy fucking shit rofl.

>how do you guys cover horrible book covers?
I open them in Calibre and switch the cover images to whatever I want. There's an autodownload cover function in Stanza, too.

>> No.2720615
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>>2720588
With the Penguin Edition covers.

Yo listen up here's a story
About a little guy who lives in an orange world
And all day and all night and everything he sees is orange like him, inside and outside
Orange house with an orange window, an orange corvette
And everything's orange for him and himself and everybody around
Cause he ain't got nobody to listen to...

I'M ORANGE, DA BA DEE DA BA DA
DA BA DEE DA BA DA
DA BA DEE DA BA DA

I have an orange shelf with orange book covers
Orange is the color of all that I read
Orange are the Yeats and all the Browns are too
I have some Pynchon, and he's orange too
Orange are the authors that I flaunt around
Orange like Cormac, its in and outside
Orange the words I read and words I think
Orange the discounts, cause I am so cheap

I'M ORANGE, DA BA DEE DA BA DA
DA BA DEE DA BA DA
DA BA DEE DA BA DA

>> No.2720634

If I think the cover is that bad I'd search for a different or older edition with a less shit cover.

>> No.2720638
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>>2720615

>> No.2720642

This is the biggest pain when ordering from Amazon.

(Apart from when some moron sent me some pop fiction with 'Tempest' in the title instead of 'The Tempest'. You know, by Shakespeare? Maybe you've heard of it? Quite hard to forget.)

My copy of Sense and Sensibility is tiny and almost pink. I'm pretty sure it's part of one of those collections you see in Waterstones, which is a shame.

>> No.2720665

>>2720642
I wish kindles would show your book covers as the screensavers. Every time I shut off my kindle Dumas's fat face stares back out at me.

>> No.2720672

>>2720642
>My copy of Sense and Sensibility is tiny and almost pink.

Just like your anus - you coquettish little tease.

>> No.2720682

>>2720672
Well that is not the reply I expected. Well played, /lit/.

I currently really need to defecate so I can't imagine it being very pink.

>> No.2720684

>>2720672
How come everytime I come to /lit/, I leave horny?

>> No.2721035

>>2720684
Because we are sexy, sexy people.

>> No.2721037

>>2720672
It's been a long time anyone has made me laugh on this shithole of a board. Cheers sir.

>> No.2721072

>ITT: mostly American bookcovers

Goddamnit Americans, can't you produce simple, elegant covers, not even for classics or philosophy?

Pic related: what books should look like.

>> No.2721149

>>2721072
>Ameritrash
>producing something elegant

Pick one.

>> No.2721157

>>2721072
http://www.wavepoetry.com/

>> No.2721174
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>>2721072

>> No.2721202
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French covers from Gallimard.

>> No.2721205

>>2721157
Cool minimalism

>> No.2721217

I don't read shit books so I don't have this problem.

>> No.2721231
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>>2721217

>> No.2721238

>>2721231
I'd buy that just to look ironic and cool in about 10 years time.

>> No.2721239

PUT THEM AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SHELF

>> No.2721246

Is it wrong that I usually spring for the good looking covers despite the fact that it costs more? I'll also hold out for boxed sets of series to have a consistent cover series rather than different editions.

>> No.2721251

I like the top covers, OP. Mainly because I own that specific box set

>> No.2721252

>>2721231

Come on, this has got to be a shoop, right? ...right?

>> No.2721258

I don't buy books with horrible covers. I'll either buy an older edition or wait for a newer one.

The only I'm generally disgusted with are movie tie-in covers, though. The books I'm interested in normally aren't that bad (e.g., no genre fiction).

>> No.2721259

I don't always read Cracked, but when I do is for things like this:

http://www.cracked.com/article_15661_harry-potter-book-disguises.html

You can take a couple hints off that article.

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>>2721072
I hate them too, and I'm American. My cover of the Lies of Locke Lamora is terrible. It looks like some guy on a romance cover with a rapier staring out onto a glowing castle that looks like it was ripped straight from a Disney movie.
British covers are so much better. Pic related, the superior cover that I was too lazy to order. Simple, tey elegant.

>> No.2721265

>>2721259
Cracked it great. Their comedic standards are low most of the time, but they're pretty funny.

>> No.2721267

>>2721263
>Read genre fiction
>Complain about terrible covers

Get some sense, pleb.

>> No.2721284

>>2720588

The top 4 are great.

>> No.2721444
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The only true edition of Lord of the Rings.

>> No.2721458

>>2721267
>>2721267
>Calls me a pleb
>me a pleb
>a pleb
>pleb
What the fuck are you, twelve? If not, did you come back from /mu/ or /b/? And Scott Lynch is easily one of the four best writers in genre fiction right now, so please do us all a favor and fuck off.

>> No.2721466

>>2721458
>Be the best at writing crap
>This means he's good

>> No.2721470

1) People bitching about genre fiction are idiots, as are people who use "pleb"

2) Scott Lynch does kind of suck. Read genre fiction, yes, but read better genre fiction, for god's sake.

>> No.2721473

ITT: plebs calling other plebs "plebs" or arguing against using the term "pleb".

>> No.2721699

>>2721470

> Implying you didn't love him before college
> Implying you don't still love him
> Implying you like any of that shit you hide behind these days