things that bother me for no good reason.

[enamoured]

You know how new editions of books will be published, and the cover art may be changed? Am I the only one who always feels a little bit bummed when that happens? For me it's like, if I buy a book and like it, the cover art for that particular edition feels like "my" book in a way, and everything else just looks odd in comparison.

Also, I hated it when series would redesign their covers out of nowhere. Like how the Baby-Sitters Club went from just having the logo on a pastelish cover with the cover art to having the cloth background that reflected whichever character was narrating that book and the side panel with the pictures of all the main club members on the side. Ooh, and when all of a sudden the Princess Diaries books got away from the tiara theme on the cover of the first five, and then when Princess Mia came out they went to a solid colored cover with a title and reincorporated the tiara again somehow. I JUST WANT CONSISTENCY, DAMN.

Comments

[anicetoseeya.livejournal.com]

...I was just about to mention how I was pissed when they changed the covers for The Princess Diaries but then decided I wasn't going to because I didn't think anyone else read those books & didn't want to embarrass myself.
BUT I AM GLAD TO SEE THAT I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO READ THEM & WAS ALSO PISSED WHEN THE COVERS MAGICALLY MORPHED INTO SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE TIARAS.

But seriously....I feel the same way.
Some covers are just classic and when I see a new edition with a new picture or something on it part of me dies.
Yes, that sounds extreme but I believe it to be true.
CAN WE JUST LEAVE THINGS THE WAY THEY WERE INTENDED?!
Ahem.

[moirariordan.livejournal.com]

YES. Like I know it's a good thing when they reissue books (for the author/publisher anyway) but daaaaamn. They just did it to Meg Cabot's 1-800-WhereRU? series, too, and I was super bummed. :/

[shiegra.livejournal.com]

Aha, I would get ridiculously upset about it and obsessively hunt for original copies. I have three copies of one book because I kept trying to get the right cover. (My sister's boyfriend borrowed the original copy with the right cover and left it at a coffee shop somewhere.)

[woo2step.livejournal.com]

I feel this way very, very strongly about the Sweet Valley University books -- in fact, so strongly that I will not even entertain the idea of buying the books that came out after the switch from these models to the Daniels twins. Ugh.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

I have all of the Princess Diaries books except the first one in hardcover. I was so annoyed when they changed the covers the first time, UGH.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

And the new covers for those are just... meh.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

I have done that before!

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

I feel like that about the redesigned BSC books. And when I read Fearless, I hated it when they went from the cool, white covers to the tacky-as-hell orange ones. Plus, the paperback size went up when they changed the colors and they didn't match the rest of my books.