Comments on: Confessions of a Reader: I’m a Cover Snob

By: Ti

Ti — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:49:30 +0000

I agree. A cover can make or break a novel in my eyes.

By: Happy

Happy — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:16:36 +0000

I am so on the same page. I belong to a reading group that reads classics. Every time we select a book I go on line and examine the cover choices and then I order the ‘right’ one at my local independent bookstore.
Of course and then I judge what editions my fellow club memebers have selected and weigh their remarks against their covers.
Oh well. If you want to be taken seriously make better cover choices.

By: claire

claire — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:22:10 +0000

Another cover snob here, but in a different way. I will not keep a book on my shelves that has a cover I loathe. If I like to read a title with a hideous cover, I won’t purchase, will just borrow from the library. Or if I do purchase (usually from yard sales or book fairs, used), will give away after I’ve read them. I don’t mind, however, what other people are reading. I love checking out what they read, too, in public, but only to see if we share the same taste in books or not. I don’t really think any less of a person who reads books that I consider crappy.

By: S. Krishna

S. Krishna — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:36:31 +0000

I judge books by their covers, but less type of books and more aesthetically. I have a hard time picking up books with ugly covers.

By: Jenners

Jenners — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:09:37 +0000

I am totally with you on this! Some books I just write off because of the cover art! Sad, but true. However, I did read one book that I would have never read because of the cover (the first book of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series) only because a friend “forced” me too and it was fantastic. I then read the rest of the series (until I ran out of books) and always hated the cover art on all of them.

Great post!