She’d been tasked with designing the book covers for the English translations of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-part autobiographical novel, My Struggle—and she’d landed on a concept to tie the ...

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A deep neural network, which has four layers of up to 512 neurons each, was able to correctly identify what genre a book belongs to just by analyzing its cover. The resulting rate of accuracy is ...

A cover designer’s role is to interpret a book visually, reflecting what the author and publisher have achieved in the text. That role is primarily determined by a publisher’s agenda.

When a book grabs her attention at a bookstore, Komal Seth immediately flips it open. “If it doesn’t move in the first 20-30 pages, I just leave it,” she says adding that she never judges ...

A new report shows that book bans at U.S. schools increased 33% since just last year. Why book bans exploded -- with front lines in Southern California too - Los Angeles Times ...

I — personally, as a reader — look at the back cover of a book, I don’t read the blurbs. I look to see who did the blurbing, and I go, “Huh, interesting,” but it has no effect on whether ...