Book Cover/Jack(et)-off Thread

[HEIRESS]

Special Edition Penguin Hardcover Classics (designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith)
unghhhhhhhhhhhhh I want em all!
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[Caribou]

Awesome!

Luckily I'm an English student, so I can buy these with a reason other than 'omg, they'd look so cool on my bookshelf!'

[hpdrifter]

Those would look so beautiful on my bookshelf!

[HEIRESS]

Ive already read all of them except Crime&Punishment and Cranford (which I bought yesterday) so I'd feel odd getting the whole set.

I never re-read books. ever. So it would be a mild waste purchasing them all.

[hpdrifter]

Crime and Punishment is probably the hardest book I ever read. It was a challenge to me, I've never been challenged by the writing in a book in my life.

I read it in English, I can't imagine how hard it would have been to read in the original. Much much harder than Anna Karenina, I'm sure.

But it's worth the effort.

[Dorothy Wood]

those are loverly (y)

[HEIRESS]

I plan on reading C&P someday. I enjoy books that are "hard" to read but when they are retardedly long as well it can be difficult!

I didn't know this Coralie Bickford-Smith character got around so much in the world of book design.

I am officially a fan.
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[b-grrrlie]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/3040974482_059a151e6f.jpg?v=0
This would look so beautiful on my bookshelf!

[HEIRESS]

My new favorite blog:
http://seenbooks.blogspot.com/
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http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6430/2500/400/THE-CONFIDENCE.jpg
http://www.found-nyc.com/blog/wp-content/gallery/images/book_cover_00.jpg

[Dorothy Wood]

^whoa, awesome blog!

I buy books for the cover all the time. well, at thrift stores.

this doesn't belong in here, but I recently bought this game based on the box.

http://images.boardgamegeek.com/images/pic99876_md.jpg


it's only mildly challenging.

[yeahwho]

Great thread, I love reading and I love books. I used to collect pulp fiction books but quit a few years back when the availability of old paperbacks became scarce. I never read them I just keep them stored away for no particular reason. I love this art style (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&um=1&sa=1&q=pulp+fiction+book+covers&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0) and the titles that go with it.

I have a very close friend who collects old books, mainly short prints and limited (extremely limited) editions. He loves industrial training books and anything that shows how to operate, maintain and install machinery from the beginning of the industrial age.

I probably will never, ever own a kindle.

[HEIRESS]

you should frame that game cover!

I can never imagine myself sitting in a bathtub reading a novel on a kindle. never ever ever.

My book collection is the only thing I have currently amassed that is worth putting into a will.

I keep seeing Dave Eggers "The Wild Things" novel everywhere. I like it.
http://bookpage.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/wild-things.jpg

[HEIRESS]

http://curledupwithabook.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/1704875109_c2978e623d_o1.jpg

[Randetica]

i dont have enough books to fill out just a half of one of those shelves