Judging Books by Covers
The cluster centers on debates about judging a specific book's content by its cover or spine, literally applying the idiom 'don't judge a book by its cover' to a Hacker News post featuring a tech book with an unusual design.
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What if it's a book about designing book covers ;)
It's an argument to not trust a book by its cover.
The book isn't real. I was just sharing an interesting thought from it. Lighten up.
You shouldn't judge a book by its spine. Those are usually optimized for bookstore clerks to organize the book into the right area, and might show not really be related to the content very much.
so if they're good, they're books. if not, they're not _really_ books.
Is this a print of "the book" or is there some additional content here that we should be interested in?
This could just be elaborate marketing for that book...
i noticed a few askance looks when i read this at a public location, and prefer to use a book cover to avoid this common misperception
I'm afraid I don't follow: what's unusual about the printed cover of the book, and why is the date of publication relevant to your assessment?
Why bother with real books in the first place? just print the spines.