5 Books Next to Their Opening Lines

The first sentence is the most important part of a book, or so I’m told.

I took photos of five of my favorite books and then added the first sentence.

Some of them came out very well, like I am Legend, which is fittingly creepy.

These were all made with an iPad app called Over.

7 thoughts on “5 Books Next to Their Opening Lines”

swlothian September 30, 20131:43 pm Reply

Awesome idea. Great post.

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1. Johann Thorsson September 30, 20131:53 pm Reply
  
  Thanks. Took me a while though, the app kept misbehaving and losing the words.
  
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Maria's Weekly September 30, 20137:34 pm Reply

Love it! Great concept! Thanks for sharing.

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1. Johann Thorsson September 30, 20138:47 pm Reply
  
  I’ll have to do more of these soon.
  
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Aaron September 30, 20137:44 pm Reply

Hi Johann! Cool project. Mind sharing with our support guys what happened that caused you a bit of trouble?

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1. Johann Thorsson September 30, 20138:24 pm Reply
  
  No problem. The text would jump “above” the on screen photo and be unreachable.
  
  Sometimes the font selector froze or gave me artwork instead of changing the font. On one occasion I couldn’t scroll down to the artwork selector (it kept bouncing up).
  
  This would often happen again and again, and making these 5 images took quite a while.
  
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Katherine Nabity October 1, 20136:16 pm Reply

I don’t pay too much attention to first lines. But now I really want to scare up my edition of Something Wicked This Way Comes. Great images; thank you!

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