That's a good technique that I've used as well. It often pays to search hard for a good image - one out of copyright if we're going to be uploading here - and for a good quality version of the image too.
Here's my version of the cover you did, done by finding a higher-quality version of the cover image*, with a little adjustment of levels in photoshop and adding new text to replace the rather battered text in the original image.
Adding a MobileRead logo seems like a good idea. If there a high-quality version around that we can use?
Paul
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www.abebooks.com is a good place to look, by restricting the search to books with bookseller supplied photos.
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Originally Posted by Elsi
What I've done with the Bobbsey Twin books is to use the same basic graphic -- taken from one of the earliest books and then update the book title using a font very similar to the original. The first image is the scan of the original book cover. The second image is one that I twiddled in PaintShop Pro and added a different title.
On a similar topic, I'd love to have a couple of sample title pages shared. I've seen a couple of very well made ones in books downloaded from here, but of course when I'm thinking of them, I can't put my hands on them! In particular, I am impressed with the title pages that contain the MobileRead logo, since I'd like to make sure that anyone who winds up with a book that I've contributed is led back to the site.
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