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08-07-2023, 10:53 AM | #1 |
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Author Michael Chabon recreates the Science Fiction section of childhood bookstore
https://boingboing.net/2023/07/31/au...his-youth.html
https://www.threads.net/@michael.cha...t/CvVrj-TLIK7/ I've said it before and I'll say it again: older book covers--especially Sci-Fi/Fantasy ones--are so much cooler to look at than modern covers. I'd love some way of programmatically constructing something similar from my Calibre library. |
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The current book cover for The Entity would fit on an '80's horror shelf. I wish all publishers put that level of work in. Quote:
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08-07-2023, 11:48 AM | #3 |
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Anyone else realizing that they have read almost all of the books in the images? Even the ones that even then you thought of as 10 finger exercises?
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08-07-2023, 11:57 AM | #4 |
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Or you can live downstairs and convert upstairs into a retro book-shop, with actual real books.
I think we have 29 bookcases upstairs of various sizes and mbe 8 downstairs. Not enough space to display the covers. One shelf in a built in one has books two deep. I retired most of my programming and engineering books to boxes in the attic. Due to collecting the PD titles, the virtual bookcase in calibre has about twice as many titles. |
08-21-2023, 03:36 AM | #5 | |
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These days it seems you have to turn to (some) indie publishers to get much effort on covers ... although there are still some exceptions to the rule, just enough to keep me interested. |
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