Terrible book covers

[mr.hobblesworth]

Saw this today.

 

[mr.hobblesworth]

Then there's this. Less of an existential threat to a blinded humanity by mobile flesh-eating plants and more a fop's upset at having some hedge clippings dumped on his head.

[dun 4]

My daughter collects book covers, mainly for the art work but also has found lots of quirky stuff. She generally come back form hols in Scandinavia or Eastn Europe with 2 or 3 more. She'd like the 1984 cover but the Triffids effort looks a bit pathetic.

[RailwayRowdy]

As a bit of a “beer money” sideline,  I scour the country’s charity shops to buy books and then sell them to an online site for hopefully a small profit.

These sites are very choosy about what title’s they will purchase. One thing I learned pretty quickly was that if the cover had a couple looking at each other starry eyed, or featured some country scene, put it back on the shelf without further investigation. These titles are worth Jick Shat.

The art work of the cover itself is a very subtle form of advertising and you instantly know what sort of publication it is likely to be without actually reading any wording or text.

Very subtle, yet very clever.

 

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[mr.hobblesworth]

What site do you use? I still buy books but find that it's nigh on impossible to resell them and that's despite living near two 2nd hand bookshops. In fact, on told me that I'd get a better price offering them to a local man who uses them for fuel for his fire! I generally end up giving them to charity shops or the station library but it would be useful to know of somewhere that would offer money for at least some of them.

[mr.hobblesworth]

 

WTF?!

[RailwayRowdy]

39 minutes ago, mr.hobblesworth said:

What site do you use? I still buy books but find that it's nigh on impossible to resell them and that's despite living near two 2nd hand bookshops. In fact, on told me that I'd get a better price offering them to a local man who uses them for fuel for his fire! I generally end up giving them to charity shops or the station library but it would be useful to know of somewhere that would offer money for at least some of them.

The one I use is “WeBuyBooks”. You download the app and then scan the bar code on your phone and you get an instant quote. You then print off a prepaid label and drop them off at a designated place (usually Co-Op, Premier store etc) 

But be aware, they will only offer cash for very few books indeed. 

But hey, it keeps me in beer money !

[toyahw]

Black Water Lilies is really seriously good. But don't read reviews or discuss it in advance. That would spoil it. Read it pure and natural. Best book I've read for a for many a long while.

[toyahw]

Plenty of good ones. Dune comes to mind.

[toyahw]

Forget it. Jesus this site is paranoid.