What do you think about local book covers?

Freelance designer Shafarin Zaki at work at his computer.

We've all heard the saying before: one should never judge a book by its cover.

It’s good advice in theory, but in practice, how many of us actually do it? Let’s face it, a cover is usually the first thing that draws us to a book. To quote another old saying, first impressions matter, and a cover is often a reader’s first introduction to a title.