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Angelica wrote:
That's a good point. The only thing that draws me away from people on the cover, is that i like to imagine myself how these people might look. As soon as i know a face, it is all that i see. I have these books that have faces on them and the third is gonna release some time next year. I have imaged one of the protagonist faces and when i saw the cover she had made for the next, it just wasn't the face i had imagined all the time and it felt off. 
It's of cause something else with non-fictional books thought.

Nesta wrote:
ah yeah but I'm actually terrible at visualizing characters in my head. They are a vibe and maybe one or two traits, like normally a hair color or something they wear. I can't for the life of me keep a sensible picture of the characters in my brain long-term. I also keep using the faces on the covers for the characters, but I don't rly care since it helps me out haha but yeah most of the time characters are just obscure people dressed up as emotions in my head

Angelica wrote:
So when you read, it basically isn't playing a movie in your head? 

Nesta wrote:
depends on the writing to a degree, but regarding characters they don't normally have faces

Angelica wrote:
Oh, just like a scenery and getting a feel of the different situations, but nothing beyond. I think i get you

Nesta wrote:
yeah.. considering some of it is bc i read in english and how i learned to read that was based on the idea of what the sentence said instead of understanding every individual word

Angelica wrote:
That makes sense.
Do you always read English or only when you are to order books you don't have available in Norway? 

Nesta wrote:
If I find the book in Norwegian and it doesn't cost like more than double the price of the english copy or I just feel like reading Norwegian, I pick Norwegian. But as most of the books I follow are English releases that are unlikely to get translated any time soon, I pick English. English books also cost half of a Norwegian one, esp. translated editions.

Angelica wrote:
I could imagine you are more up to date, with new released than i am. I really only read in English, if it's the only option, i do reader older releases more than often tho. I guess it's only more known authors who instantly get translated, for availability.