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** Certain editions of the ''[[Discworld]]'' book ''[[Discworld/Guards! Guards!|Guards Guards]]'' contains character summaries of the "Duke of Ankh, Commander" Vimes, and "Captain" Carrot. For those who don't know, this is the first book of the Watch series, and it ends with a still-drunken Captain Vimes, and a still-naive Lance-Corporal Carrot.

** The Harper Torch printings of the older ''[[Discworld]]'' books tend to assume you've read them already, so they tend to have fairly spoileriffic images on the cover. To their credit, the spoiler usually doesn't make sense until you ''have'' read the book, but it's still not cool to put the gonne on the cover of ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men Atat Arms]]''. (Not a ''huge'' spoiler though, as anybody in Roundworld rather than the Discworld will know what the weapon was as soon as the first death occurs. Any cover image or blurb that shows a plot element is arguably equivalent, since you wouldn't otherwise know about the book until you started to read it.)

** The "classy" Corgi reprints have black covers with something symbolic or significant (eg vampire teeth for ''[[Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]''). The one for ''[[Discworld/Feet of Clay (novel)|Feet of Clay]]'' is [http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/isbnthumbs/055/215/0552153257.jpg a bit of a giveaway]{{Dead link}} for a book that even calls itself a "howdunnit".

** Not only does this happen with the endings of the Discworld books, but it will automatically happen if you read the first book of a series published after any earlier work. This is most glaring with the first Moist von Lipwig book, ''[[Discworld/Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'', which includes spoilers to nearly all of the city watch books and The Truth. As this is one of the most popular novels in the series, and one of the more recently published, it is a real problem for new fans unsure of where to really start.