Covers
Covers is a nice site dedicated to the appreciation of book cover design.
When I was a kid, my fantasy job was to be a book cover designer. I imagined reading books all day and then designing covers for them, thereby combining my 2 favorite childhood activities. How cool would that be?!
Anyways, I don’t design books right now and I’ve been buying most of my books from Amazon these days but I still love going to Green Apple Books (my very favorite store in all of SF) to browse…I think part of the pleasure I get from going there comes from looking at all the different covers and touching the different types of paper…I always walk out with something beautiful I didn’t know about that makes me happy or that pokes my head in the all the right places, reminding me of how tiny my world is and expanding it just a little bit.
Browsing through this site feels a little bit closer to the serendipitous experience of browsing through Green Apple than browsing through Amazon. (though of course still not the same)
