"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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• dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think the point is that the cover is never guaranteed to accurately represent the book.

  Quality of cover =/= quality of book

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  • RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Although, I’ll never buy a book where the author’s name is in bigger, bolder font than the title of the book.

    I hate that trend in cover design and I refuse to support it.

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      DEAN KOONTZ Newbury Award Winner New York Time Best-Seller The Lake Boat First time in paperback! With a Foreward by David Baldacci

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, the point of a book cover is to sell the book…

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• Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe, the point still stands. I’ve read awesome books with boring covers and vice versa. Its really a good saying that does apply to most areas in life.

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No. Some are richly designed to showcase the book contents and others are not. That’s the entire point! It’s not the books with fancy covers that are always the best. You could find a plain cover copy of The Hobbit in your local library next to another copy that is oversized with a gold-embossed cover and an amazing painting showing the party of 14 plus a Wizard huddled on a mountaintop against the storm…

  …and they’re still the same book.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My copy of The Hobbit is really weird it’s just leather and says The Hobbit in gold inset writing.

    Absolutely nothing on the back, or even a barcode.

    Really old books tend not to have covered designs that seems to be a relatively modern phenomenon.

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• ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It wasn’t when the idiom was coined. Have you seen hard-bound books from the 19th century in libraries?

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  • _thisdot@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    didn’t most books look the same back then?

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• miraclerandy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My go-to phrase now is , “don’t judge a book by its movie.”

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• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe book covers should be auto-generated from the entire text fed to an AI artist

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• Lemmylefty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unless they’re “as seen in the hit TV show!” in which case it’s okay to tear those covers off.

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• hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Whenever there’s a “don’t judge” statement, I always remember this post from Tyler The Creator.

  Due to primal instincts, it’s inevitable that we judge. So judge, but don’t discriminate. Seems like a good system to me. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sounds like that uses a loaded connotation of the word discriminate. That word really just means to differentiate things from each other or discern distinct things.

    I think a better way to say it would be: “judge, but don’t pre-judge.”

    As long as you’re actually judging evidence in front of you, great. If you’re making shortcuts to judgments using superficial cues, that’s where you run into trouble.

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  • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    lemmy.world/comment/1786499

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• ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t know aye, I have read some books that were amazing. Although the cover was really, really bad.

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• ethman42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was told that the rest of the saying is “but it’s a good place to start.”

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• Merulox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In real life, regardless of what people like to say there is more often than not a correlation.

  Only, you shouldn’t take those for facts and shouldn’t make assumptions.

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