Occasionally, we here at the TFPL Reference Desk have some cool ideas. And since we’re all about sharing, we’ve set up this page to let those of you who are interested use these cool ideas (all we ask is that you give us some sort of small recognition – although hiring a blimp with our names would be awesome!).
Murder in the Stacks (Mystery Library Games for Adults)
Moveable Feast (2008 Interactive Book Quiz)
Programs for the Whole Fam Damily (2018 ILA Reg 4 Conference)
Readjusting Reading During (and After!) a Time of Dreadfulness ( Booklist from 2021 ILA Reg 4 Conference)
The Reference Desk at TFPL 
Posted by Joyce Gronenthal on April 16, 2020 at 4:48 pm
READERS DOZEN do you have any suggestions for the April challenge? A book cover I hate?
Posted by jhills on April 16, 2020 at 4:58 pm
Since it’s so subjective, it’s hard to give you a specific answer, but you might look for older books that have strange/incongruent images – especially if they’ve been redesigned from their original covers. Also, some self-published authors aren’t quite so good at creating their own covers (see Amazon Kindle books for more of those!) Here are also a few websites to give you an idea:
https://bookriot.com/2018/03/01/read-harder-2018-book-with-a-cover-you-hate/
https://crushingcinders.com/when-bad-covers-happen-to-good-books
https://electricliterature.com/these-book-covers-are-so-terrible-you-wont-believe-theyre-real/
You might also look around the house for a book you bought/inherited that you’ve never read. Maybe the reason is the cover!