Should you judge a book by its cover??

My graphic design professors: "If I can't judge a book by your cover, you haven't done your job."

I love the idea of putting the cover artist's name right on the cover.

Another awesome video. As a graphic designer I believe that a book's cover should function as a sort of gateway into the story but a good cover won't make up for a bad story.

I totally agree with the last point of highlighting the cover artists more prominently, I mean, it's such a vital part of how people choose what to read. I know in the light novel world, that's such a big part that most light novel prominently feature the illustrator right beside the author as if it was a primary selling point that you'll get art from a specific artist. Of course light novel art is more than just the cover but still. Some of the books I have, have some seriously cool cover art that I'd love to have that highlighted on the book's forefront

It annoys me to no end that special edition Manga is never released in English.

Maybe my favorite series of manga covers is Blue Period. Each is so striking and colorful with the characters in the throes of creation.

I don't usually type comments. I'm one of the lurkers, but I'll make an exception for once. Since I've seen you announce this video coming up on your community tab, I've been waiting on it, and it was absolutely worth the wait. I've bought books just because of the cover in the past, and while that can be a hit or a miss, I did find some fascinating and fantastic reads that way. Anyway, I'm in a very small online bookclub community, and since you posted your and your sisters reading taste by covers, I challenged my club to do the same and take a pic of 8 books to reflect their tastes (and sent them over to watch your video too). Thank you for making content, fantastic video!

The level of editing here is beyond incredible. Enhances the discussion to another level. Fantastic job!

I always try to get the special edition of Witch Hat Atelier since there's always some goodies with the manga too ^^ For me they are precious collection objects 🤩 And I'm always thrilled when there is a nice embroided cover edition of a book I like ~ It was a nice video! Always happy to support your work 👍

Your videos are delightfully well made and edited

Your positivity is contagious.

love your videos, found you with the dungeon meshi character design one and stayed cuz everything you talk about is so interesting and well made, glad that you take your time to make quality work. Never thought id be so interested in a video about book covers.

loved the video! i was also very pleasently suprised to see iron widow on your shelf, i also have a physical copy of that one and i absolutely loved this story

I'm so excited for this video!!! Thank you for making it! <3

As a person who loves books, it was awesome for me see this topic on this channel. Plus, it was really interesting see the English versions of some books that I only knew the Brazilian ones. Hugs from Brazil!!!❤

As someone researching book cover designs for my own book, this video came at the perfect time!

You even put so much time in editing the part of the sponsor?! Holy shit???

There's only one movie tie-in cover I ever liked—the cover for Little Women to tie-in with Greta Gerwig's film. Instead of being a still from the film or some promotional art, the cover is a match for Jo's book in the final sequence of the film. It was such a subtle and genuinely delightful touch.

this video is so well made, both the explanation and the production. i usually don't read (non academic) books but this video had my eyes glued on the screen for the entire duration.

Glad I watched this video. As someone who's in a bit of a book slump, I try finding books to read from tags and/or lists, rather than the covers.