Those new covers are indeed hideous. I could understand hideous if it served some purpose. Like making books easier to identify on a shelf (electronic of physical). But these new designs actually hamper identifying a book. Though different from each other, the mind would group them all together and not easily be able to distinguish one from the other if scanning for something.
It's like someone works at Gutenberg and their child got an "F" on their geometric shapes science project. So the parent says, "I'll show that teacher a thing or two!"
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