Always judge a book by its cover

[Paul_Tromba]

Have you ever seen a really bad cover that made you ignore a book? Perhaps a cover is what led you to pick up that really crappy book once. Either way, we all know the type of covers we'll pick up and won't. Well, let me show you some covers from a hilarious site called Always judge a book by its cover.

 

[SailusGebel]

 

[LilRora]

Daaamn.

I wanted to describe my experiences with misleading covers, but daaamn.

 

[Paul_Tromba]

Daaamn.

I wanted to describe my experiences with misleading covers, but daaamn.

I mean, you still can. That is the point of my thread but I was using these as references for attention grabbing covers with little quality inside.

 

[Lloyd]

This is some real reddit level humor.

 

[NotaNuffian]

I was sold at the title How to Talk to Your Cat

 

[Paul_Tromba]

This is some real reddit level humor.

Oof.

 

[LilRora]

I mean, you still can. That is the point of my thread but I was using these as references for attention grabbing covers with little quality inside.

I'm afraid not one of my experiences can beat what you've shown us here.

 

[Paul_Tromba]

I was sold at the title How to Talk to Your Cat

I actually have that one.

 

[SailusGebel]

I actually have that one.

 

[Paul_Tromba]

I'm afraid not one of my experiences can beat what you've shown us here.

These are just the poster children of bad covers. It's not a competition. Share your experiences so that we may understand.

 

[TotallyHuman]

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Do not tell me what to do

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tried, doesn't work

 

[Redemit]

Absurd images and titles will inevitably cause a WTF response in the brain which will then turn into a nagging desire to understand just WTH is going on with that damn book thus causing the reader to open it up and start reading

 

[J_Chemist]

Big fan of taking a shower with my friend's Sasquatch mom. I bet those buns are fire.

 

[LilRora]

These are just the poster children of bad covers. It's not a competition. Share your experiences so that we may understand.

Well, first and foremost are all the times I've been looking for a story with a female mc and clicked on a story with a girl or a woman on the cover only to find out it's a smut harem. It has happened too many times to count and I'm honestly tired of it.

On a more positive note, one of my favorite books of all time has a cover I could make myself in ten to twenty minutes. Basically a yellowish circle with the middle cut out so it looks like a moon, on a black background with some dots for stars and other smaller details. All in a single gradient of color, I think. It's unfortunately gone now (it's not showing up in searches on Scribble, at least) but it was called Celestial.

I'm sure there were a lot more of those, but I don't remember at the moment.

 

[Corty]

So... which one is supposed to be the bad example? I only see wins and chads.

 

[Paul_Tromba]

So... which one is supposed to be the bad example? I only see wins and chads.

That's up to you to interpret.

 

[Sola-sama]

So... which one is supposed to be the bad example? I only see wins and chads.

based opionion

 

[SsemouyOnan]

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[Sleds]

Have you ever seen a really bad cover that made you ignore a book? Perhaps a cover is what led you to pick up that really crappy book once. Either way, we all know the type of covers we'll pick up and won't. Well, let me show you some covers from a hilarious site called Always judge a book by its cover.

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Just by the covers I would never read one of them.