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Weekly Geeks 2009-05
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Judge a Book By Its Cover!
This week it's all about judging books by their covers! Pick a book--any book, really--and search out multiple book cover images for that book. They could span a decade or two (or more)...Or they could span several countries. Which cover is your favorite? Which one is your least favorite? Which one best 'captures' what the book is about?
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30 comments:
I love this!
Great weekly geeks, this!
Hi!
Great Idea this week!! Mine is posted. Have a great day!!
Sherrie
An easy way to find covers is to search for the book on LibraryThing, as in this page:
http://www.librarything.com/work/12987/covers/30277112
It's going to be great fun seeing which books are chosen! Great idea!
Just posted mine,
This was a fun project and I am finding some cool books to add to me list.
E.H.
What a great idea!
This was fun!
This was loads of geeky fun!
Mine's up - happy Weekly Geeks everyone :)
My post is all about tyhe covers for FRIEND OF THE DEVIL by Peter Robinson
Wow....I don't think I've ever felt left out of a topic before. I have a lot of favorite authors, but their novels have maybe one cover variation and that's because it's sold in another country. This is going to take me awhile.
Thanks Abbot of Unreason. LibraryThing is definitely helping me with some of my older authors.
I love this! I had a hard time choosing a book to post, too many great books with multiple covers!
I had a lot of fun doing this one!!
http://lifeinthethumb.blogspot.com/2009/02/weekly-geeks-5-cover-art.html
So I did it a little different, but I stuck with the topic!
This was fun. Mine is posted.
I loved this it was a lot of fun!!
this was a fun one, nice to really think about why I prefer some covers to others.
Mine's a little different, too, Jackie! ;) I'm really new to the whole book cover-mania thing, lol.
This is my first visit to Weekly Geeks. As an author/reader I love this topic. I posted a blog a couple months ago where I tracked down many covers and compared their various images from hardbac, paperback and also the differences between US and UK covers. The differences are amazing!
Here's the link
http://scobberlotch.blogspot.com/2008/10/tss-power-of-book-cover-design.html
Aww... I didn't think of library thing I used good reads. Oh well still found some good ones.
Terrific idea. Thanks for suggesting it.
Cheers,
Jeff
This was a fantastic idea!! But what I think is even better is that there are 55 posts up already and only 1 repeat book!! That's amazing!
Love it! Mine's up.
Fun assignment! I finally got mine done. Geez, blogging is becoming a full time job. ;o) Now off to explore others.
Fun topic! Finally getting a chance to join in, it's been ages since I participated in Weekly Geeks and not since it moved over here.
Somewhat related: My favourite part of Quill and Quire magazine is the section where they trace the development of a book cover for a recent title, revealing the various cover design ideas considered by the publisher and author.
Great topic! Thanks for this one...I had fun with it.
http://savvyverseandwit.blogspot.com/2009/02/weekly-geeks-2009-05.html
I think the number of geeks this week speaks for itself :)
- excellent idea.
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