# New and Improved Book Covers
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-book-covers/488467
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 6, 2009, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-book-covers/488467 "2009-03-06T01:32:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2009, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-book-covers/488467/1 "2009-03-06T01:32:21Z")
As I suggested in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=13), I think it’s time for folks at the Straight Dope to put their photo manipulation skills at work, and “fix” some book covers so that they’re more accurate.
Once you’re done fixing the covers of your choice, please upload them and give us the links.
Here are my first two new and improved covers:
[A (once) good series gone bad](http://s38.photobucket.com/albums/e130/theevilwriter/manipulated/?action=view¤t=boringanita.jpg)
[Children’s Lit that teaches](http://s38.photobucket.com/albums/e130/theevilwriter/manipulated/?action=view¤t=commiefish.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2009, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-book-covers/488467/2 "2009-03-06T03:59:46Z")
My first crack, as promised:
[Not that he’s bad at it, you understand.](http://home.comcast.net/~Ranchoth/turtledovecover.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2009, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-book-covers/488467/3 "2009-03-06T11:57:58Z")
[Here’s the one I posted in the last thread](http://das-ubernerd.blogspot.com/2009/03/if-only-all-covers-could-be-this.html).
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### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-book-covers/488467/4 "2009-03-06T16:40:22Z")
More! More!
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-book-covers/488467/5 "2009-03-06T23:29:09Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#):
>
> More! More!
Sure…
[A Beloved (by some) Classic](http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e130/theevilwriter/manipulated/donquix.jpg)
[Before there was Twilight…](http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e130/theevilwriter/manipulated/emovampire.jpg)
[Batman, rebooted](http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e130/theevilwriter/manipulated/clinicbatman.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-book-covers/488467/6 "2009-03-07T00:39:49Z")
An imagined future entry in the series:
[ ](https://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg)
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-book-covers/488467/7 "2009-03-07T17:17:07Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#):
>
> An imagined future entry in the series:
> [http://i44.tinypic.com/dh4i2t.jpg](http://i44.tinypic.com/dh4i2t.jpg)
I gave up on the series after the first book, but from what I’ve been told by folks who’ve soldiered on, this doesn’t seem too far fetched. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-book-covers/488467/8 "2009-03-08T00:45:54Z")
Not exactly a barnburner of a thread, but what the heck. As inspired by [THIS THREAD](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=508943):
[ ](https://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg)
Oh, and my previous pic was from [The Dresden Files](http://www.jim-butcher.com/books/dresden/), in case some folks here aren’t fans, and were wondering.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2009, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-book-covers/488467/9 "2009-03-08T07:12:41Z")
I’ve got one in mind, if I get a chance to do it. Matching the font might be tricky, though.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2009, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-book-covers/488467/10 "2009-03-08T07:17:22Z")
OK, so the second link from the OP appears to be a book called “The Rainbow Fish”, but it’s in some Asian language. Is there actually an edition in a language most Dopers might have read?
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### Author:  [@History\_Mystery\_and\_the\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/History_Mystery_and_the_Wolf)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2009, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-improved-book-covers/488467/11 "2009-03-08T08:52:27Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
>
> OK, so the second link from the OP appears to be a book called “The Rainbow Fish”, but it’s in some Asian language. Is there actually an edition in a language most Dopers might have read?
[Not hard to find on Amazon link](http://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Fish-Marcus-Pfister/dp/1558580093/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236502253&sr=8-2)