[NeoMorph]

Everybody judges books by their cover, the cover is very important, it tells you a great deal about the content, who would buy a book that has no interest in the subject matter, or had read several books by that author and not liked them? You don't need to read the book to know you don't like the design of the cover, and if the author tried to blackmail you into paying him to write the book even though you didn't want to read it, you might start to dislike the author, and then even worse if the authors home nation said, you must allow its authors to take all the books they wanted from your country and if you didn't let them, they would poke out your eyes, you might start to dislike them as well, and try to dissuade any other of your countrymen from buying the book even though they might like the content of the book.

Book covers lie about what is inside a lot of the time.

As an avid reader I haven’t looked at a book cover in decades. I currently have 361 books on my current Kindle (my sixth) and I had a huge library at home before I donated them to charity.

My point is I ignore the cover and search first for my favourite authors, then my favourite topics (military sci-fi) and after that I go straight to the inside blurb... never looking at the cover.

Because as an avid reader I know covers lie.

I still remember one book that an aunt bought me for my birthday looked like a fantastic sci-fi novel... with lasers and explosions and rockets etc. But when I started reading it I kid you not but it was a love story about aliens abducting women, cutting off their limbs and healing them like that and having anal sex with them and a man who rescued the woman... and I stopped reading after that because it was getting freakier and freakier by the minute.

I was an innocent 13 at the time (I think) and didn’t even know what anal sex was. Hell, I went to a pretty uptight grammar school so didn’t know what sex was other than it was something to do with boys and girls naughty bits.

When my aunt asked me if I enjoyed the book I really didn’t know what to say. 😳

Even funnier was my older sister is a sci-fi fan too... she spotted the book on the shelf and nicked it and went mad at dad for having torture porn (another term I didn’t know about) as she thought it was his (Dad was the one who got us into Sci-fi at an early age and was forever getting paperbacks from second hand stalls or swapping them with friends from work... I was reading Asimov at 8 but my favourite around that time was the E.E. Doc Smith Lensman series).

So yeah, book covers lie. They lie A LOT. Same as DVD/Blu-Ray disk covers do. Oh and computer games too.

 

[NeoMorph]

My point is, it can be a fake SUV on the outside and a sporty Corsa on the inside... a bit like, I don’t know, the new German designed, French manufactured, 2021 Mokka maybe. 🤔

 

[MokkTheWeek]

Then again, you may have read several books by the same author and really enjoyed them, then bought another despite it having a particularly nasty looking cover, how disappointed would you be when you started reading it, only to find it was crap, written by somebody pretending to be the real author.
No suggestion of course that is the case with the Mokka e, which as we all know is as perfect on the inside as it is beautiful on the outside.