Cover Books and Covers on a Book...Now and Zen

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The aphorism " you can't tell a book by its cover " originated in the

times when books were sold in plain cardboard covers, to be bound by

each purchaser according to his own taste. In those days, you couldn't

tell a book by its cover. But publishing has advanced since then:

present-day publishers work hard to make the cover something you can

tell a book by.