Studying Book Covers

Or, reversely, what type of stuff do you tend to skip over? Like bland, cream colored stuff? Light colored bindings?

>>8820718
I don't really care about the look of a book, it's always the content that attracts me.

>>8822321
>le rational i dont look at the penib before i suck it man
fuck of

>>8822324
What are you trying to say? I mean, I literally couldn't understand what you are trying to say.

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>>8822180
I've big collection just like
>pic related
I've no desire to read one of the books with pulpy covers, but I just adore them. At the same time I mostly hate the covers of the books that I like. I even replace them by custom made ones in case of ebooks. Shakespeare, for example, does not have an appealing cover, and there's thousand of different ones around.

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>>8822528
I believe he's trying to compare book covers with a look of a penis before he takes it up his mouth. He's also finishing by telling you to fuck yourself off.

>>8822543
>>8822549
These are pretty cool.

I was mostly interested in getting other peoples feedback about what actually catches their eye when they are book shopping because in-between writing I like to think about what would look appealing and get my book picked up off the shelf once I get it published.I know everyone says 'don't just a book by it's cover', but unfortunately that doesn't help much when their are literally hundreds of books on a shelf to peruse, and you want yours to stand out among those hundreds just to give it a chance that someone will read that back cover, or the first sentence.

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>>8822586
Personally I'd go for fonts and backdrop. Nothing else. Ulysses style. But really depends on genre. I mean sci/fi's got to have swords and spaceships.

>>8822622
But see that style is pretty bland and boring. I've skipped over a lot of books like that in the library before and gone for something brighter or more interesting looking. Course, if that particular book where sitting in the middle of a lot of very artistic covers, then it would probably stand out more.

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I love simple covers with one or two colors/objects being the focus. That or just the title in a nice font with solid or patterned background. Tbh as dull as it seems Lolita is still one of my favorite book covers after 6 years: nice focus, simple colors.

On the flip side, I hate when book covers are taken up by the author's name in huge text, or if their name comes first before the title.