Chriseindt@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year ago"Don't judge a book by its cover." is a bad idiom, because bookcovers are desinged to represent the content of the book.message-squaremessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1241arrow-down159
arrow-up1182arrow-down1message-square"Don't judge a book by its cover." is a bad idiom, because bookcovers are desinged to represent the content of the book.Chriseindt@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squareruk_n_rul@monyet.cclinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down2·1 year agoIt wasn’t when the idiom was coined. Have you seen hard-bound books from the 19th century in libraries?
minus-square_thisdot@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agodidn’t most books look the same back then?
It wasn’t when the idiom was coined. Have you seen hard-bound books from the 19th century in libraries?
didn’t most books look the same back then?