Nostalgic lamenting from even the decidedly non-Luddite sector, MIT's Technology Review.
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Is the Book Cover Dead?
It sure doesn't look good. Thanks, technology.
I am something of a book cover art enthusiast, a man geeky enough to have once bragged about having met Chip Kidd in an elevator. (Who? My point exactly.)
And so it’s with great interest that I read, over at the Atlantic, Betsy Morais’s take on the promise and peril the Kindle holds for the art of the book cover. I often lament the loss of the feeling of a book’s heft in your hands, the way it folds open over your knee, the smell of paper, and all those other fusty, visceral attachments my kids will one day laugh at me for. For some reason, though, it’s taken me this long to realize how very much I’m worried about the fate of the book cover.
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Much ado about little, but I too do miss book cover art. When reading pBooks, I'll often pause in my read to refer to the cover, especially when a passage or phrase relates back to what the artist was no doubt conceptualizing when creating the artwork.
Yea, it's there at the beginning but it in an eBook, it isn't something to which you can
so casually and easily refer; it takes more than a degree of time and effort.
Maybe I should print out the cover art and tape it to the inside front on the cover!
