This week on the bookish internet

• R.E. Hawley examines the current trend of vibrant, blobby book covers and what they tell us. (Print Mag)
  • Pair with Gia R. explaining why we shouldn’t judge books by their covers. (Book Riot)
• McKayla Coyle rounds up some amazing bookish tattoos for our delight and possible inspiration. (Electric Literature)
• Josh Jones talks about the time the Nobel Committee considered Tolkien. (OpenCulture)
• Lincoln Michel argues for genre labels. (LitHub)
• Strange Company profiles Thomas Phillipps, the “world’s greatest bibliomaniac.”
• Eli Cugini takes a look at the recent successes of—and challenges faced by—trans authors. (Xtra)