Interacting With Book Covers

, the creator of a Tumblr blog that posts photos of book covers that have been brought to life, used a rather simple method to create the series. All you have to do is take a book and hold it in front of your face or body, and make sure the two coincide. The result is an extremely fascinating picture like the ones you are about to see.

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Beware, because you might find yourself getting really fooled by some of these photos. At first glance, the pictures look like the book cover literally came alive. But if you stare at it a little longer, you can pinpoint the real from the drawing.

Book Lovers Unite

If some of these books have been your favorite at some point in your life, what better way to envision the covers than with a realistic fusion like this? The real question though, is where were these pictures shot?

How It Started

The revolution began a gloomy Thursday night during work at Skylight Books in LA, United States. Emily Pullen randomly held a book up against her face to create an image.

Spontaneously, co-workers and friends around her followed suit, like it was a midnight ritual. It got really catchy after that, and people started to match different parts of their person to fists, muscle arms, pair of legs, eyeballs or whatever else was on book covers.

And Then Corpus Libris Was Born

After the epidemic spread far and wide, and people couldn’t stop themselves from trying to become an extension of book covers, Emily got a superb idea. She decided to collect photographs of body-book matches from all over the web, and share them on her blog.  And her highly entertaining blog was christened .