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Old 02-28-2022, 05:58 PM   #61
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While I appreciate a good cover, I generally give zero fox about any cover. It's what's inside (the story) that counts.
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Old 03-05-2022, 12:42 AM   #62
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While I appreciate a good cover, I generally give zero fox about any cover. It's what's inside (the story) that counts.
Even on an ereader, you browse through your library* or see the home screen and see the covers. So why not have nice ones?

I like covers. I like the large cover thumbnails on the Nook. Am I shallow? I don't mind.

*And if you are one of those who uses list view, you are a sad, strange person
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Old 03-08-2022, 03:34 PM   #63
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Even on an ereader, you browse through your library* or see the home screen and see the covers. So why not have nice ones?

I like covers. I like the large cover thumbnails on the Nook. Am I shallow? I don't mind.

*And if you are one of those who uses list view, you are a sad, strange person
Covers can be useful if I'm browsing an online library or bookstore as they can provide a clue as to the content. But once they're on my ereader I don't pay much attention to them. I use list view and the icons are tiny and black-and-white so there's not much to see.
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Old 03-10-2022, 05:27 PM   #64
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Thought I would post one of my wife's favourite book covers here. A cover which made the author instantly infamous:

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Thought I would post one of my wife's favourite book covers here. A cover which made the author instantly infamous:
OK, I'll bite - why instantly infamous? It looks pretty genre-generic to me
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OK, I'll bite - why instantly infamous? It looks pretty genre-generic to me
Count the arms on the woman.
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Thought I would post one of my wife's favourite book covers here. A cover which made the author instantly infamous:
I went and checked on the book. Alas, it has a new cover. If I were the author, I would have fought to keep that infamous cover.
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I went and checked on the book. Alas, it has a new cover. If I were the author, I would have fought to keep that infamous cover.
As would I - or added one more and called the character Saraswati.
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I didn't notice either. Just shrugged and moved on.
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I read a lot of books with half-naked men on the cover.
Not to mention all those sword and sorcery covers by Frazetta and Vallejo.
Naked men on 70s SF covers were rampant.
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Old 03-12-2022, 12:27 PM   #72
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I read a lot of books with half-naked men on the cover.
Not to mention all those sword and sorcery covers by Frazetta and Vallejo.
Naked men on 70s SF covers were rampant.
There's also fully naked ones like Den or John Carter. I loved those stories.
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There's also fully naked ones like Den or John Carter. I loved those stories.
The John Carter books were so great! I read those paperbacks over and over. And ERB's Tarzan books too. The John Carter ones were my favorite, though. A few of them actually fell apart and I ended up scotch taping them together. I didn't have much $ when I was a little kid and not many books.
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I read a lot of books with half-naked men on the cover.
Not to mention all those sword and sorcery covers by Frazetta and Vallejo.
Naked men on 70s SF covers were rampant.
Vallejo seemed sort of tongue in cheek and campy to me. Frazetta struck me as more serious, if we can use that word when talking about pulp. I've even ordered some posters from his store: https://www.frazettagirls.com/collections/home-new
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Hear! Hear!

But let us not forget Jeffrey Jones.

I see one cover with (apparently) a half-naked man swimming next to a half-naked woman.

Correction: Both are totally naked.
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