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Originally Posted by AlbertaCowboy
I voted for basing books on their cover. In hindsight, I suppose that the poll was referring to front covers, but I use the back cover blurb to intitially get my attention.
This usually has me buying Clive Cussler clones that turn out to be garbage. Hmmm, maybe I should start reading reviews...
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Yes. After a cover and title has grabbed my eye I read back cover blurb first; if that's still working for me, I'll read a bit of the first chapter. I might start trying the page 99 thing, before all editors start telling all writers to "write the heck out of page 99."
This is of course, my bookshop pbook mode. EBooks I google the title and see what comes up. On Amazon I'll read the reviews. If it reads good but only has four reviews, all of them glowing, and the reviewers have all only ever reviewed one title each on Amazon then I am looking for a sample. If I can't find one I pass.