My main machine is a Macintosh. As there isn't a Mobipocket Reader program for Mac, I only ever saw the covers of eBooks briefly when first reading the book on my PDA.
When I got a CyBook, covers became a little bit more important, because thumnails of the covers were displayed in the library view.
Then I wrote a QuickLook* plug-in for Mobipocket eBooks, and eBook covers suddenly became very important. Instead of generic document icons, my eBook archive on my Mac now used the eBook covers for icons and in CoverFlow view.
Flipping through the eBooks with CoverFlow became enjoyable. The new views also helped identify me to identify books correctly, as the covers naturally show both title and author, while plain file names can't do both well.
With some image editing software and the MobiPerl tools, I could add new covers to my books that had poor covers, but then I wanted to find a way to solve two problems:
1) How to share the covers I made with others
2) How to get more artistically inclined people to share their pretty covers with me
A new forum at MobileRead seemed the obvious solution. I'll be very interested to see what others think.
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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
We're always being told that you can't - or shouldn't - judge a book by its cover; nevertheless, sometimes cover art may say a great deal about the content of a book (such as, for instance, it's theme, sub-genre, or mood).
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*QuickLook is a Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) method for displaying the contents of files, with new file formats being supported by small plug-ins added to the system.