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I am literally judging books by their cover and they assume I am a prophet. (thelemmy.club)
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[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

yeah. it maybe looks like it isn't because because he's not literally looking at books but "judge a book by its cover" is an idiom so i'd say this is a correct literally rather than the shitty 2010s literally that means figuratively.

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