Received, but not read yet! So far this thread is spoiler-free for Oathbringer, but Way of Kings and Words of Radiance are fair game.
Some initial disconnected thoughts:
This book is surprisingly…small? Like, compared to Words, it’s easy to heft.
As with the other Stormlight Archive books, totally worth it to get the hardcover. The arts are great - I cannot imagine looking at them on my Kindle. I read Way of Kings that way, but since getting the Words of Radiance hardcover, I’m never looking back.
I’ve never seen a dust jacket printed on the inside like this! These must be the symbols of the Radiant orders, flaking the map. I expect they are glyphpairs, presumably each sharing a glyph with their neighboring orders, though it’s hard to tell what the shared glyphs are.
The frontspiece and…backspiece? arts look like members of the various orders. The glyphs on front-left, rear-left, and rear-right occur in the set of ten flanking the map. Theory: the woman on the rear-right with the keys and divider is whatever order Jasnah belongs to. We noticed that she’s wearing a glove, as Jasnah (presumably) is on the front cover of the book. I think the man in the rear-left is a Windrunner, because of all the windspren around him and the way everything he wears is fluttering. The woman on the front-right is maybe a Lightweaver? Kind of funny that she doesn’t have a glyph. Also interesting how, although her dress has a safe-sleeve, you can see her hand - though I guess that wouldn’t be the only scandalous aspect to the dress among the Alethi! Finally, I guess that the man in the front-left is whatever order Renarin belongs to. (Truthseer?) None of their glyphs are adjacent on the map, which is consistent with what we know of those suggested orders.
I’m sure I’ll have more thoughts once I start reading! Exciting!