The Art of Google Books curates interesting scanning glitches.

To prove there’s a blog just about everything, here’s Good Show Sir, devoted to bad science fiction cover art. There’s plenty of that in Portugal.

Cory Doctorow has a new novel out called Makers, which you can, as usual, download for free from his website.

I have a colossal number of pages to read as part of my Master’s thesis investigations, but I’ll read this as soon as I feel I need a break from those readings.

… and Penguin-style book covers for films. J. Kottke takes a look at media packaging mashups.

I always felt that the works of art we call movies consist of more than just the sound and the visuals in a stretch of film, but also of their entire promotional material — trailers, posters, etecetera — because this material too manipulates the viewer’s perspective and expectations, just the thing the art of editing is all about. It’s as if, even though you don’t judge a book by its cover, the cover does influence how you’ll read the book, just like an opening chapter.