Designer: how misleading do you want this design? Publisher: yes.

[@haveagoodday7021]

No one can ever dethrone Lolita for "book covers that completely miss the point of the book"

[@lilyhawthorne1196]

Ugh yes, it's almost always either chic contemporary romance or thrift store smut type covers. My favorite idea for a cover is a broken chrysalis

[@anthropomorphicpeanut6160]

It has many awful covers but some are very good too. I like the one with 3 lips saying the different syllables of Lo-li-ta

[@sghuntress.mp4]

i like the one where it's a painting of a creepy looking man who's supposed to represent humbert. i think it really sets the tone perfectly.

[@itsdivyag]

ty for this suggestion. i included lolita in the part 2 of this series :) ! feel free to check it out

[@justcallmeteacup4711]

That Great Gatsby cover is criminal 😂 It's giving "Arranged marriage to a mafia boss, enemies to lovers"

[@Fluff_Noodles]

It is such a strong romance smut Wattpad / Webnovel competitor

[@fulana_de_tal]

Imagine someone picking it up thinking it's erotica because of the cover and then it's The Great Gatsby 😭

[@dancinganimals.]

​@@fulana_de_tal😂

[@ros9764]

It's incredible that somebody took a book that talks about american greed culture in the early 20th century and thought the cover should look like a playboy magazine

[@itsdivyag]

A must read

[@JamesLawner]

WHO thought that Great Gatsby cover was okay?!?! Like there ain’t even a sex scene in that book! 😳😱😖😭🤬

[@lvzyours]

There’s no correlation what so ever. False advertisement. I’m dying at the fact “great” is just maximized to the fullest and we have squint to even read “the” and “Gatsby” 😂😂😂

[@JamesLawner]

@@lvzyours Someone really took “sex sells” and ran with it! 🤣

[@lillyputian5907]

I’m crying like who is that even supposed to represent 😂😂😂

[@aries08]

You sound like someone who bought the book based on the cover and is now very upset with the way it went

[@JamesLawner]

@@aries08 I've read Great Gatsby in 2011, and I did not read the edition that I saw in this vid 😂😂 I'm just a disgruntled civilian.

[@groofay]

Gotta love it when the cover is a different _genre_ from the book.

[@itsdivyag]

Same

[@KPOPDanceDeepDives]

Please make this a series! Also another reason the naked man Gatsby cover is weird is why is “Gatsby” so small? My first thought seeing the title was literally “oh I haven’t heard of this book before”. 😭 I get why they’d emphasize the “great”, but they didn’t need to make the second half illegible. ☠️

[@itsdivyag]

i suspect it's for whoever is too ashamed to be reading the great gatsby in public so they have to hide it with abs

[@fish2380]

Ah yes, the classic book "GREAT"

[@Aurelian369_]

KDDD I didn’t expect to see you here 😱

[@KPOPDanceDeepDives]

@@Aurelian369_ lmaooooo and i didn't expect to be recognized here 😳

[@anonymousfandommix6850]

Wait legit, why is there no black person on the huckleberry fin cover???

[@KaiInMotion]

I love looking at various editions fr. When like a random alternate cover from Indonesia or something is a total slay. Or then the German edition looks like....a parody. Iconic.

[@itsdivyag]

hidden talent all around the world.. and some talents should remain hidden

[@freakytostadacartoon]

Like the Thai covers of Harry Potter are magestic

[@dhakahealth5935]

@@freakytostadacartoonI just looked it up and oh my lord they’re absolutely breathtaking I would honestly buy them immediately if I saw them in a store just because they’re so gorgeous

[@meowmeowfuzzyface3698]

I totally forgot during the Twilight craze they printed books Bella and Edward read in the style of the Twilight covers. I believe they did Wuthering Heights and Romeo & Juliet too but I can't be positive.

[@Squishy_Seal]

I would love you to turn this into a series! I love your style and as an avid bookcover analyst, this is a treat

[@itsdivyag]

COMING SOON 😭💕💕

[@Izumi250]

That russian cover of Hunger Games is the reason I refused to read that series for the longest time. Okay, so when I was 13 or so, my cousin worked at a bookstore. I visited her there once and asked if she could recommend me anything. So she showed me the YA section and said "these two are pretty good". One was Uglies by Scott Westerfeld which had a generic close up portrait of a girl on the cover. And the other was The Hunger Games with that bloody cover of a couple hugging in the rain. I really didn't like romance books at the time so I've picked Uglies. (which kinda sucked, i dropped it in the middle of the second book). I've then read Hunger Games a couple years later and loved it. So, fuck whoever designed the cover of the russian translation, I guess.

[@itsdivyag]

TALLY-WA AND SHAY-LA UGLIES ??????

[@user-es7ui5mc1m]

For A Little Life, I have these whole different sets of parameters of how I think about the two covers: When treating the cover as a "how well does it represent what the vibe and point of the book is and make people want to buy it" kinda thing, I agree that the US cover is a thousand times better and I think the choice of the picture is perfect for representing it... BUT I love to think of the UK cover as sort semi in-universe in a way and that's where some version of me prefers it. I think of it as the white borders hiding what lays behind, and even the glimpses we do get (the letters), they only show the outside of the building, we don't get to see inside and we don't get to see Jude (or Willem, or anyone). It's such a voyeuristic book, I like that this edition doesn't immediately make you Jude's voyeur just by looking at it, you have to pick it up and peek inside to see what is going on behind the white and then even further behind the walls of that building. Idk if I'm making sense and I know it sounds a bit contrived like I'm making up a reason to like the cover but it's also just kind of sweet that at least with that cover, he and his pain get to be hidden a little bit. Almost like the front- and backcover protect him and you have to get to know him to see the pain that the US version so readily presents. Idk If I explained this well, it is sort of a headcanon kinda thing about the cover so definitely not an objective judgement of how aesthetic I think it is, but I felt compelled to share :) (On a related but different note, the man on the US cover looks white to me and Jude isn't white so it feels like the cover is whitewashing him and that's the one thing I really dislike about their choice of that picture - even though I get why they went with it, it really does represent the themes of the book perfectly)

[@itsdivyag]

you're not making up a reason at all! it's a fantastic analysis and 100% designers and artists think carefully about the choices they make. i loved it a lot. the whitewashing thing i haven't read so can't comment too much on but if that is true that's a huge shame

[@roxane1237]

The book felt awkward to read and the big picture of the man crying was awkward too on my side table so I had to turn it over in order to avoid seeing it lol (also the book is massive so it's a very big face you cannot ignore in a room)

[@swimdontdrift4344]

The UK version of A Certain Hunger has a bit of Edgar Wright energy Also I love the green screen presentation format

[@itsdivyag]

more green screen (or almost green wall posing as a green screen cause i'm cheap) to come!

[@elleliteracy]

i’m obsessed with this powerpoint format i feel like you got a good few squats in there too innit

[@duck_in_a_cup]

This video showed up at the right time. I litteraly found yesterday a book cover of Orwell's "Animal Farm" with an "emoij like" smiling pig head on a white background... a very appropriate cover for a book about comunism 💀 Edit: If you want to look it up by yourselves, i'm leaving the title and the reast of the information on the cover book "La fattoria degli animali" edizione integrale, testo inglese a fronte, Edizione Theoria (Note that I'm not so sure if It will work for everybody since It's an Italian edition and my Google is set in Italian)

[@bigboldflavortext]

I searched it up (I also know some italian so maybe my computer understood the assignment) and WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT COVER WHAT IS THAT WHY THE FUCK WHO DID THIS

[@chrisamies2141]

"Big Brother only he's a pig" would be a good place to start from!

[@duck_in_a_cup]

​@bigboldflavortext First of all, thank you, subject n.1, to have guaranteed me that everything is working as intended. 😂 I can't explained myself why on earth this book cover is a thing, but recently the library is full of strangers things, like a book called "the centenary (lady) with the gun". On the cover this old lady with pink rollers, a robe and the gun she's pointing toward you. 💀

[@duck_in_a_cup]

​@@chrisamies2141God, now I'll think about this while trying to sleep 😂

[@bigboldflavortext]

@@duck_in_a_cup im crying what the hell

[@bluemai8776]

that final gatsby cover is genius, omg the cocktail y

[@itsdivyag]

It’s so so good

[@AlinaChetoshnikova]

As russian I can say that most of the book covers that we have are trash, there's only few exceptions. Nice example is a russian edition Before the coffee gets cold. I was in rage when I saw that thing. That's why I love buying originals. Btw, thanks for the video, had a great laugh!

[@offthepoint2208]

Oh this needs to be a series

[@laurenh5982]

Girl I just found this channel and I already love it!!! Please never stop the design roasts and fun content💕💕

[@avoidant560]

This topic reminds me of another video I watched about how the publishing industry treated Lolita cover. I guess never judge a book by its cover could never be truer now

[@redglassesart]

YESSSS! I was hoping you’d cover some of these 😂😂😂

[@itsdivyag]

A feast for the eyes

[@seralinaland1188]

I enjoy your content sooo much 💗💗💗💗 also congratulations on 100k 🥳🥳

[@itsdivyag]

thank you :)

[@Louintotheocean]

Idk how I guessed the first book right :')

[@itsdivyag]

legendary cause i could never

[@its_just_seb]

i love this type of video and would love to see you do it again!

[@itsdivyag]

deffo :)

[@sahilhossian8212]

Lore of Designer: how misleading do you want this design? Publisher: yes. Momentum 100

[@flyingspagbowl6629]

MY GREATEST FLEX IS I GOT THE HUNGER GAMES ONE RIGHT

[@itsdivyag]

you're better than i am bc i could nooootttt

[@romypotash7114]

The first 2 i literally have and literally mad a cover in my design over

[@TheCrazeace]

That misleading cover of The Song of Achilles is literally a hate crime

[@gabrielle4821]

6:27 I knew this one! Not the one I read, but it’s in the same little series of flower ones as the Sense and Sensibility I’m reading right now.

[@melopuss375]

I'm fairly sure they bundled huckleberry finn with tom sawyer so they can (awkwardly) avoid having ol' mate jim on the cover.

[@marissah8921]

i love this video but i am terrified at the thought of seeing my book cover in one of these lol

[@cidi08]

pls do more of these this was so fun!!

[@ChanelNeime]

That Dracula cover disappoints me like it were my own son. His dopey face is on the spine, too, so I keep him backwards in the shelf.

[@itsdivyag]

You have the copy??? Legendary never let it go

[@PaigeLTS05]

There was this series about a pair of 12 or 14-something year old fraternal twins in the Victorian era who hunt vampires, and the original cover was fine, but there was a different cover that made it look like a romance book. Don't remember the title, but the original cover for one of the books is a bat and fits the mood way better than whatever the alternate cover was going for.

[@slasinemdemirhan541]

I would really love it if you rated the Turkish version of the covers. I have a bookstagram page I run in English. So, mostly, even if I read a Turkish book I include de us version and some of them are just shit compared to the Turkish version. Ithaki Yayınları, Türkiye İş Bankası, and Can Yayınları are perfection

[@isacami25]

UK VS USA!!! that'd be awesome

[@bruh-uo7yk]

this is so funny, please do more of these this setup is also so ripe for comedy gold lol

[@itsdivyag]

ppt is my love language

[@loremtz2506]

the Wordsworth calssic covers look ai generated I hate them

[@itsdivyag]

they prob have the designer working overtime and underpaid

[@seiya-chon]

Honestly, the cover of The Iliad by Wordsworth Classics looks far better than the Portuguese edition. It's plain purple with a small black helmet in the center, so small that you'll need a microscope to see it. It just looks so unappealing!

[@alexisb3829]

Why is the twilight redo just them blowing up what was already on the covers??

[@annalulu5117]

Yes, more cover reviews!!

[@itsdivyag]

More to come!

[@annalulu5117]

@@itsdivyag I can’t wait!!

[@moonbook12]

At 5:38 it's also said His Song Of Achilles (I know some Israel are different covers, also most times if book not super hype you get different cover however sometimes they do change to original cover)

[@cramerfloro5936]

This is a really cool subject! I can’t think right now of anything constructive to add, so I’ll just give you some trivia on the german “Twilight translation": in german, the word for bite is "Biss", with two S, while the word for until is "bis", with one S. So the title is "Biss zum Morgengrauen", basically "Bite to the dawn"

[@victoronnie]

i have that other cover of a little life and i personally really like it, the spine of the book has the image and lettering "reversed" (the title is white while the staircase image fills the spine), which i think looks really nice lol

[@itsdivyag]

Love that detail

[@ShikiPirs]

So, the Hunger Games' covers are Russian covers from like 2010 and we had this series of book covers for Twilight, the Vampire Diaries and other paranormal romance books (and for some books that was ok) BUT for such books as the Hunger Games it never worked for sure ahahah (I personally only own The Vampire Diaries with such covers)

[@Eniramoi]

3:47 Does anyone know where I can find this Hunger Games set? Can't find them anywhere and they look so good...

[@user-cp9id1mj8b]

I fucking love her accent

[@sovaylove]

i’m below average, me too and proud 😂 please continue this series!!!!

[@secretarit1]

Fist off, Wuthering Heights kicks ass, and is a way better story than Twilight ever will be, and I will die on this hill. Second off, could you fathom thinking Wuthering Heights was going to be like Twilight, only to be gut punched with the fact that its a story not about whatever the hell kind of teen romance is happening with Bella and Edward (abusive in its own right, lets be honest), and instead about a relationship that is so toxic it gets more than one person killed and makes multiple generations suffer mental and physical abuse by the only surviving member of said toxic "romance" with the only thing keeping him alive being the thought that "if I cant live happily, the world dose not deserve to be happy ether", only dying when he sees that no matter how black he has burnt the earth around him, happiness can still find a place to grow, even if its under his own foot..... I ducking love this book so much 😆 Edit: THE GREAT GATSBY!!! 😭😭😭 COULD YOU FATHOM!! I need to go cry now

[@iri02802]

These are the funniest Hunger Games covers I've ever seen 😂 I thought it was Twilight or something or maybe If I stay

[@yannsiee]

Six of Crows was a tragic slay romcom childhood friends to lovers

[@itsdivyag]

enemies to lovers but its uwu

[@vvarieee]

2:19 “guess what book this is” my russian ass: “damn i’ve got no clue whatsoever”

[@nomatophobia]

NEON HUNGER GAMES SLAYS I WILL FIGHT

[@itsdivyag]

It is a vibe

[@morph3630]

Oh my fucking god what happened with the skng of achilles 💀💀 my jaw dropped

[@PongIsDrawing]

I read Wuthering Heights when I was 12 too! I didn’t like it, Jane Eyre is way better if you want to read something by one of the Brontë sisters

[@kazu9445]

no because Wordsworth Classics - I legit have a vendetta against them: they're really cheap but why. why the fuck did anyone think these photoshopped nightmares would be a good cover?!?!?!?!?!?! Surely they put MORE effort into the weird Morbius guy in the background of Monte Cristo than Penguin Classics did with their cover?!?!!?

[@itsdivyag]

MORBIUS

[@miriamlevenson9430]

nah cuz why is the UK always messing up US book covers 😭😭

[@chickenwithitsheadcutoff]

i thinka uk vs us video would be super fun! there’s something different about us and uk design that i can FEEL but cannot EXPLAIN.. very weird

[@InsertUsernameHere-co1uv]

WHY IS GREAT GATSBY JUST. GREAT

[@cristinamagalhaes4813]

The six of crows with the six feathers on the cover... Someone thought they were very smart for doing that

[@itsdivyag]

symbolism I’ll give them that 👏👏 and the fact that it has the title and author name

[@LivesInHerBooks]

I just want to know who came up with the idea of pink and blue... like how?

[@mikaylamyers8521]

@@LivesInHerBooks I can actually tell you! They're the Indigo (Canadian Barnes & Noble) Special Summer Editions, and they were designed to be beach-read style books. I had to make a display for my store when they first came in, and I think they are so ugly, and I cringe everytime someone buys them.

[@goosegas2087]

​@@mikaylamyers8521They should've at least put a yellow on the spine.

[@esobelisk3110]

@@mikaylamyers8521 i get that aesthetic for a beach read type of book, but from what i’ve heard, six of crows is not in that genre at all? so it’s just misleading marketing. like that’s not how you reach your target audience….

[@itsdivyag]

the great g[abs]by part 2 is up!! : kzbin.info/www/bejne/a17QlXl-q9xmndE part 3!: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZ3YlJlvfaqSq8U

[@raineatscheese]

I’m not ready for this

[@chileab.]

...genuinely read this as the great g[asp]by because of how shocking the cover was

[@itsdivyag]

@@chileab. this is so good

[@OctopusWhoSeesAll]

The great ga[bs]y

[@RubykonCubes3668]

noice, very cool

[@watsonmelon6575]

It's funny you should say "crush me with them THIGHS" about that cover for the Iliad because Odysseyus is described as having "fine massive thighs" [kind of sus of Homer] and someone remarks on "what a thigh the old fella has"

[@itsdivyag]

the cover did its job well!! 👏👏

[@kenzgitz9884]

I'm pretty sure Patroclus is in one of the other ancient Greek plays as well...by Achilles obviously

[@kjarakravik4837]

I also read that according to some historians thigh or leg was considered a slang term for dong back then

[@swagromancer]

@@kjarakravik4837 Not entirely wrong. The word μηρός (merós), meaning "thigh" or "thigh bone", was also used to refer to "the loins", either in the context of "the place where a sword is worn", or as an allusion to "the center of reproductive power". But this usage only developed with the Koine dialect of the Greek language, about half a millennium after Homer. It might have the same root as the Latin word membrum ("limb"), which was used in much the same euphemistic way, while its English form obviously carries the meaning until this day. Classical studies, hell yeah.

[@LC-gw7tp]

I actually have that edition of Wuthering Heights that has “Bella and Edwards favourite book” printed on it

[@itsdivyag]

did it become your favourite book also

[@TheSnowBallet]

I'm German and had the German Hunger Games editions as a teen because English books weren't accessible to me at the time. Not only are they bland-looking compared to the original US editions, but I hate how they renamed them, especially Catching Fire. The German titles for the books are "Die Tribute von Panem: Tödliche Spiele" (The Tributes of Panem: Deadly Games), "Die Tribute von Panem: Gefährliche Liebe" (The Tributes of Panem: Dangerous Love) and "Die Tribute von Panem: Flammender Zorn" (The Tributes of Panem: Flaming Fury). I'm not so mad about them giving the series an overarching title but "Dangerous Love" instead of "Catching Fire" feels downright insulting. The book series isn't the greatest thing ever made but it was about a lot more than just the romance subplot, by God.

[@itsdivyag]

DANGEROUS LOVE??? whoever made that choice was a beyonce stan

[@itsdivyag]

also ty for letting me know this fact haha it adds so many layers to the already off covers

[@what-ym2mf]

I actually prefer the German covers, I found them to be more intriguing as a teen hahah. But I agree, the titles could be better.

[@bookishwriter9460]

I hate the subtitles Germany tends to have for everything. Like: Bones - die Knochenjägerin (Bones, the bone hunter) Stand by me - Geheimnis eines Sommers (Stand by me - A summer's secret) Blind side - die große chance (the great opportunity) Grey's Anatomy - die jungen Ärzte (the young doctors) Der große Trip - Wild (the great trip) Seattle firefighters - die jungen Helden (the young heroes) Brooklyn - eine Liebe zwischen zwei Welten (a love between two worlds) Like, why? I get some people don't speak English but it's not like those titles are making it any clearer. If anything, they are spoilery.

[@TheSnowBallet]

@@bookishwriter9460 They make the title harder to remember too imo. And nobody I knew ever used them. They just said "Grey's Anatomy" or "Bones" because nobody has time for this shit.

[@realms.delight]

I love how you come around to rant about a random problem I had no idea existed and I still stay fully entertained the whole video

[@itsdivyag]

here at itsdivya productions we give delve into things no one asked for™

[@anitasilvestri]

They really made the great Gatsby the great thirst trap 💀

[@GreySeashell-j3m]

LMFAO

[@agnieslefttoes]

SOBBING

[@Arc_Carnes]

NOOOO

[@alexdingley9808]

seen that wuthering heights cover irl and it has a nonremoveable sticker on it saying "Bella and Edward's favourite book!", the marketing team knew what they were doing im crying

[@itsdivyag]

bamboozled me at age 12

[@missimmi]

I love that cause it's not even true. If memory serves me right, Edward hated Wuthering Heights and only warmed up to it cause he wanted to kill Jacob, but only if Bella stopped being friends with him, so he related to the characters in that sense. Didn't mean he liked it.

[@rebeccaphelps3351]

That Great Gatsby at the end with the Y as the cocktail glass is GORGEOUS! Now I want that one.

[@itsdivyag]

its SO GOOD

[@zamiyaFlow]

That Wuthering Heights cover is brilliant, perfect way to wean someone off Twilight and into the novel

[@itsdivyag]

It’s like ‘just read twilight? 😜 here’s a classic from the 1800s get rekt’

[@happyjellycatsquid]

@@itsdivyag “You thought you knew toxic codependency? B*tch here’s Wuthering Heights 🤡” That sht is going to traumatise some tween girls 😆

[@elikrauss6071]

bro, I remember that Bella's favorite book was Wuthering Heights!!

[@itsdivyag]

@@elikrauss6071 yesss there’s a sticker on it that says bellas fave 😭

[@EmyN]

I see the Twilight hate

[@HollyDunnDesign]

I think Wordsworth Classics heard all the shade because they are actually redesigning all of their paperbacks at the moment. I was fortunate enough to be hired to be hired to illustrate their new Brontë covers and they’re going to be foiled and gorgeous (if I do say so myself). 😂 They’re a great company making classic paperbacks accessible (and saved my budget more than once during my university days). I’m very happy to be part of the solution! 🎨

[@itsdivyag]

i love that

[@HollyDunnDesign]

@@itsdivyag Oh, I've had a good giggle over some of them!

[@sandorenckell5259]

I thought they were all AI generated

[@manmoy4104]

The Woodsworth book covers are stuff my brain would autogenerate in a dream tbh

[@itsdivyag]

They have an absurdist charm

[@opiateutopia]

Damn, I saw those Hunger Games covers back in 2010s. The same book series published YA romance like Twilight, so the designer didn't think twice. It seems only on the third book they went "wait, it's not steamy YA romance?"

[@itsdivyag]

there is probably only 1% of actual steamy romance in thg

[@thylionheart]

the Pride & Prejudice one made me SHRIEK laughing

[@itsdivyag]

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single bad-boy-hunk in possession of a good fortune, pale skin and piercing blue orbs, must be in want of a broody romance

[@nutkja]

@@itsdivyag This comment is AMAZING

[@ContendCreators]

It made you shrek

[@Wallisimo]

That Pride and Prejudice was definitely meant to appeal to Twilight readers. They released the new edition right after the first movie came out and the back of the book had all these extras things in it like Facebook profiles for Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth. There was also a whole article in the back comparing Twilight to Pride and Prejudice. Anyway, how do I know all this? ....because I wrote that article 💀

[@itsdivyag]

omg a living legend

[@rina-nv5yr]

2:21 “You won’t get what book is this” Me, Russian, reading the title, in Russian: 🤓

[@itsdivyag]

only russian readers sksk

[@_Sparky144]

Me reading the section title:

[@sienabrown2612]

As someone who used to work specifically in licensing covers to international publishers, whenever publishers go with a different cover, it’s usually because the elements/photos are too expensive to license! Authors can be SUPER protective of the original covers, so it’s easier for everyone if they’re the same!

[@A88-p5e]

the UK cover of A Little Life made me think it was one of those lifestyle coffee table books like Humans of New York or whatever

[@itsdivyag]

i loveeee this connection

[@sorenoberg5763]

One of the least favorite things about what publishers have done to Lolita is the cover. He specifically didn't want girls on the cover and yet now that's literally how the covers. The book is supposed to be about the evils of child abuse as seen through a rapist's eyes, and publisher's thought we should use scandalous images of young girls to sell this book. It's disgusting and one of the reasons people have begun to misunderstand the work.

[@a.m139]

All of my guesses... completely wrong 😂 Really did not see the Pride and Prejudice one coming... now if they had a pic of a male torso in a wet white linen shirt i might have guessed correctly 😆

[@itsdivyag]

maybe colin firth

[@kiripedia]

The way she said “and then we have ecli-ipse” made me laugh so hard

[@itsdivyag]

Petition to change the pronunciation of eclipse and twilight

[@marionapina]

My guesses so far: - the notebook? - Percy Jackson - alternative universe twilights - abs pic is a Four, that divergent spin-off

[@itsdivyag]

THE NOTEBOOK WAS A GOOD ONE BC ITS LEGIT THE RAIN SCENE

[@subtlefire7256]

Wordsworth Classics got what they deserve at the start there lol. Would love to see you do more of these.

[@itsdivyag]

Wordsworth classics have a place in my heart

[@jio5680]

Despite how ugly they are, they surprisingly sturdy for paperbacks)

[@itsdivyag]

@@jio5680 I have a couple and the creases give it some charm 🤭

[@elihinata1]

I love the content idea! But please don't do only UK vs. US - I'm sure you'd have content but it'd be much more fun and rich to see how other languages/cultures/countries did for covers

[@itsdivyag]

We need global design recognition for sure

[@Catsandcamera]

There were numerous books in the video that had titles not in English, so weren't UK or US editions

[@Turquoise01]

as someone with an intense love for Six of Crows and an intense obsession with the Grishaverse as a whole, you will be paying for my therapy now thank you

[@itsdivyag]

Fs in the chat

[@strawberrydomino]

the hunger games covers 😭😭😭 reminds me of those stupid hallmark romcom low budget movies that make me want rip my eyes and ears off (i said what i said) edit: THE SONG OF ACHILLES ONE ?????????????

[@itsdivyag]

i should tier rank all the hallmark romcoms...

[@nellieb6585]

Please all they did was zoom in on the original cover and increase the font size to 48 for Twilight 😭 they didn’t even try😭 (Ps you say shrimp posture I say I’m practicing for my Hunchback of Norte Dame cosplay)

[@itsdivyag]

together we make a new pixar movie

[@theshire9173]

I'm so proud that I guessed The Song of Achilles correctly by the cover alone I also am fluent in Hebrew, so that might have helped a little

[@itsdivyag]

i believe that you didn't read the title and you have amazing guessing powers

[@katerinakovarikova3486]

For me it was the fig that gave it away😅

[@daniellemhall1358]

The Wordsworth classic covers make me want to cry. Edit: That's the cover of Great Gatsby I want. I would read it on the bus and cause a scandal. 😂😂

[@itsdivyag]

it's actually so good like people think you're reading smut but little do they know

[@daniellemhall1358]

@@itsdivyag Exactly ☺️☺️☺️☺️

[@LadyJenevia]

NOT THE SIX OF CROWS COVER 😭😭😭 NOT THE PASTELS!!! 😵‍💫

[@itsdivyag]

i thought maybe if i look at it more i'll like it but... nope

[@xeniabondarchik1775]

That rainy Hunger Games was my first edition of this book... My parents were like "Oh it looks like cool teen romance book, let's buy it for our 12y.o. girl!" And this book influenced my personality a lot, not because of romance but because of that freedom and more relatable(?) life-or-death expirience than Robinson Crusoe had. So yeah, this cover is really strange, but I'm glad that first edition of Hunger Games in my country was THAT strange lol

[@MsHermyGranger]

As a Russian i just have to say that the "The Hunger Games" book cover is very similar to the Russian book cover of "Twilight" , even the font is the same. It was meant to capitalise on the success of the "Twilight" franchise when it was a thing and "the Huger Games" weren't popular yet. They changed covers several times since. I even feel old remembering this whole story

[@hauthot287]

Let us not forget one of the great tragedies of book designs. The way mfs would design Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

[@itsdivyag]

God it’s always like a close up lip of a woman 🤦‍♀️

[@Simplyvibing465]

FR!!! those covers make it look like a steamy romance when that’s the furthest thing from what it is 🤢

[@alexisb3829]

The great gatsby one- I just can’t. The book has a lot of really great designs for the cover

[@Armistice_]

UK vs. USA covers would be great

[@itsdivyag]

thinking thinking

[@flogstascreamer]

“Wordsworth classics are kind of like the SHEIN of books” 💀💀💀 facts

[@Strannik01]

Regarding what's up with the Hunger Games covers - they're Russian, and what Russian publisher wants to remind the readers that they're ruled by an aging president who assassinates his opponents a lot? YA romance style covers are just safer.

[@itsdivyag]

this is actually an interesting pov i hadn't considered

[@fourcatsandagarden]

that great gatsby cover I would've thought it was just called 'great' cos the other words were so small, and I absolutely would've walked past those pecs cos I am a gay woman so I'd have assumed that was 100000% not for me.

[@Ashely56]

I would love for this to be a series!!!!

[@itsdivyag]

i will be on the hunt!

[@DxityDoo]

I love looking at different covers. Would 100% love to see this video concept again

[@itsdivyag]

ty for the feedback 💖💖

[@queendsheena1]

1. We need a series,. 2. Divya needs to start doing honest reviews of products. Like, come on.

[@itsdivyag]

ooooooooo ideas ideas

[@roro.studies]

i have that copy of the wordsworth illiad and it's a travesty in real life too

[@itsdivyag]

please treasure it

[@SirUnwin]

diversity win: the six of crows duology is transgender

[@SirUnwin]

THE SQUEAL 😂 10:39

[@itsdivyag]

cooperations when they hire the new diversity manager: