Post a Picture of Your Book

[Prince Smiles]

We all know ‘tis folly to judge a book by its cover, but as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Be it a book you are reading now.
Be it a book you have just finished.
Be it a book that has sentimental value.
Be it your favourite book.
Be it a book that has an appealing cover.
Be it a book that has a not so appealing cover.
Be a book that has spanned the centuries.
Be it hot off the press.


I have tried to find a similar thread on Litnet, but to no avail. If such a tread exists, it is well hidden from public view.

So, from your thickest of tomes to your most novel of novellas, post away.

Here is a link to the picture posting instructional thread if needed:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17798

[Prince Smiles]

Little Dorrit. A present from my dear mother.

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[Prince Smiles]

Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry. The novel I would take to that desert island.

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd74/BigRedPaul/IMG_2290.jpg


Mikhail Bulgakov: The Fatal Eggs
I just can't help but laugh when I see this cover.

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd74/BigRedPaul/IMG_2291.jpg

[hazelk]

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9850443-the-sisters-brothers

[Pierre Menard]

http://bookcoverarchive.com/images/books/suttree.large.jpg

Currently reading (and loving).

[Svidrigailov]

That copy of Little Dorrit looks abridged, and if so it was a true act of love by your mother to spare you from Dickens' excesses.

[hawthorns]

In my observation most classics have mundane to non-existent 'covers'. Books of yesterday were leather-bound with a few words on the front and filled with treasure; books of today are bound with works of art and filled with baked air.

Maybe I'm missing the point of this?

[Prince Smiles]

That copy of Little Dorrit looks abridged, and if so it was a true act of love by your mother to spare you from Dickens' excesses.

Yes, Mater was kind, but not so kind as to spare me, 700 hundred pages and change.
The font is approximately size 8 in my reckoning.
I was thinking of reading the book again, but the size of the font is going to have me searching for my lorgnette. Heck, give me five more years and I’ll need help from Edwin Hubble to read it!

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[Prince Smiles]

Maybe I'm missing the point of this?

Dad.....is that you?

[Veho]

In my observation most classics have mundane to non-existent 'covers'. Books of yesterday were leather-bound with a few words on the front and filled with treasure; books of today are bound with works of art and filled with baked air.

Maybe I'm missing the point of this?

I think it's a great thread. I love looking at books - old ones especially and the inside of them.:blush:

I would post a picture of my favourite book, despite it being an old boring Oxford World's Classic edition, but it's currently in a different country to me. I miss her, I do.

[hawthorns]

I think it's a great thread. I love looking at books - old ones especially and the inside of them.:blush:

I would post a picture of my favourite book, despite it being an old boring Oxford World's Classic edition, but it's currently in a different country to me. I miss her, I do.

Of course, I was just hoping for something a little more targeted. Most of my classics look like this:

http://7sistershomeschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/books.jpg

Not much to say about it visually, so what's the point of a picture?

Now if we're talking antique or rare books we all have, that might be very interesting.

[martunia99]

One of my favourite books. It has a magical cover with symbols from the story.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/57/Inkheart_book.jpg/200px-Inkheart_book.jpg

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

...I have tried to find a similar thread on Litnet, but to no avail. If such a tread exists, it is well hidden from public view. ..



Prince, a similar thread does exist, although it concentrates on photos of entire libraries or portions thereof.

It is here: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67701

and I believe there is another similar thread from about two years ago.

I have a few photos located here:

http://s963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Books/


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[Prince Smiles]

One of my favourite books. It has a magical cover with symbols from the story.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/57/Inkheart_book.jpg/200px-Inkheart_book.jpg

That is an intriguing cover. :thumbs_up

[Insane4Twain]

Almost done.

[Prince Smiles]

Prince, a similar thread does exist, although it concentrates on photos of entire libraries or portions thereof.

It is here: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67701

and I believe there is another similar thread from about two years ago.

I have a few photos located here:

http://s963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Books/


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Monsieur Gurgle, two interesting threads.

I'll post more photographs of books that I read in the future and see if anyone joins me.


Currently reading “Ivanhoe” by Sir Walter Scott. Halfway through it, and enjoying the story immensely.

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I p-p-p-p-picked up this Penguin English Library edition at the local charity shop for 20 shillings.

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The book was printed for the English Library edition in 1984, the year of the L.A Olympics, Space Shuttle Discovery’s maiden voyage, and Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”.



P.S. Monsieur Gurgle, you have some fine books in your collection.

[Prince Smiles]

Alphonse Daudet. This cat's name should be whispered in the same breath as Zola and Flaubert. Oh, what ever happened to all the heroes?

Van Gogh's 'Harvest - the Plain of La Crau' graces the cover of this Pen. Clas. edition of "Letters From My Windmill" proving ere that, you must judge a cover by its cover! Oh, and there are some utterly charming stories in the book once you have done with the exterior.

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd74/BigRedPaul/IMG_2308.jpg

Daudet was huge in his lifetime, all but a footnote now.

No more heroes any more
No more heroes any more