Stories with Default Cover

[RinDes]

Another quick question for all you readers, not necessarily just on Scribble Hub, but in general:

How likely are you to read a story that uses a default cover? Or do you focus on the title, and no so much on the cover art?

I do have a lot of appreciation for well designed story covers, and original art, but from all the stories I've read so far: a good cover can be misleading in terms of writing quality, and a default cover can concealed a real gem of a story.

So do you "judge a book by its cover"? Or do you take a chance, and read regardless?

 

[Sleds]

I can read book with ugly cover but the first thing that catch my attention when I look for a novel and make me read the synopsis are the cover, then the title, followed by the rating and the number of chapters.

 

[TotallyHuman]

If you are not supposed to judge a book by its cover, why the Hell do you even need one?

 

[Simple_Russian_Boi]

For me, the cover matters, it's the first thing I see about the book, how could it not? But even with the default cover, I usually read the synopsis and the first chapter to understand what I deal with.

 

[SailusGebel]

I judge a book by its cover.

 

[RinDes]

If you are not supposed to judge a book by its cover, why the Hell do you even need one?

Fair enough, as far as the expression goes. So for you, a cover has no impact, correct?

 

[TotallyHuman]

Fair enough. So for you, a cover has no impact, correct?

I said that if we didn't judge books by covers, covers would not be a thing. Which sort of implies I do care about covers.

 

[Lord_Drakonus]

I don't really care much about the covers, as long as I find the synopsis interesting. But for the sake of the discussion, I'd say that a default cover is much better than an ugly one.

 

[Tempokai]

If the synopsis and viewer ratings are good, I might read it. Better than the "I don't know what to put as a cover so random photo from internet goes" action

 

[Sleds]

If the synopsis and viewer ratings are good, I might read it. Better than the "I don't know what to put as a cover so random photo from internet goes" action

With the Ai nowaday it's pretty easy for anyone to have at least an acceptable cover for free. No need for a random internet image.

 

[dummycake]

please crop your covers properly, they get all stretched and ugly. looks like you didn't put any effort :|

 

[whitewoman]

default cover > generic cover. Default cover makes me read title, generic cover makes me look away. A good cover though sells me. Its all really biased yknow.

 

[K_Jira]

It's hard for me to pick up stories with default covers. Even if it's an ugly one, i can sort of expect what kind of story it is from the cover but not with default covers. Default covers just got skipped from my attention.

 

[RinDes]

please crop your covers properly, they get all stretched and ugly. looks like you didn't put any effort :|

Whose? Mine? Because I'm using the proper 250 x 350 @ 72 dpi for all my covers, and none appeared stretched or ugly on my end. On both PC and Android, everything is displayed as it should: no blurry, pixelated or disproportionate appearance. And I don't half bake any of my artwork: care and pride are poured into everything I design and create... that is my work after all.

I used my stories' cover links to include them in my signature, and I even downsized them so that they could all fit in one clean row. But thanks for pointing it out either way, no harm done.

 

[dummycake]

Whose? Mine? Because I'm using the proper 250 x 350 @ 72 dpi for all my covers, and none appeared stretched or ugly on my end. On both PC and Android, everything is displayed as it should: no blurry, pixelated or disproportionate appearance. And I don't half bake any of my artwork: care and pride are poured into everything I design and create... that is my work after all.

I used my stories' cover links to include them in my signature, and I even downsized them so that they could all fit in one clean row. But thanks for pointing it out either way, no harm done.

I'm talking to everyone

 

[RepresentingEnvy]

I judge books by their covers, but honestly, no cover is better than a bad one.

 

[dummycake]

I judge books by their covers, but honestly, no cover is better than a bad one.

help me envy.
which one makes you want to click it the most??

 

[SailusGebel]

help me envy.
which one makes you want to click it the most??

Left.

 

[RepresentingEnvy]

help me envy.
which one makes you want to click it the most??

The left one is more likely to get clicks here. The right one makes more sense.

 

[dummycake]

Left.

I spent an hour and a half with the right but like 40 minutes with the left
looking now, it looks like shit

The left one is more likely to get clicks here. The right one makes more sense.

that doesnt answer my question. I want YOUR opinion