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"Don't judge a book by its cover." is a bad idiom, because bookcovers are desinged to represent the content of the book.

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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Yeah, the point of a book cover is to sell the book…

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netvor@lemmy.world
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The point of a book cover is to cover the book.

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brainrein@feddit.de
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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.

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ngdev@lemmy.world
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The “cover art***” sells it, then. They were trying to be funny I think lol

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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That’s the point of a dust jacket.

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themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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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.

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