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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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"Don't judge a book by its cover." is a bad idiom, because bookcovers are desinged to represent the content of the book. (lemmy.world)
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[–] dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

Quality of cover =/= quality of book

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] netvor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The point of a book cover is to cover the book.

[–] brainrein@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

That’s one of the purposes of a cover, you could achieve it without any design effort.

But that’s not the point, not the main purpose of a book cover. Your previous poster is right, the cover is advertising the book.