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I'd rather see simple but nicely-designed covers than elaborate ugly covers.
But given that I read sf/fantasy, a genre notorious for sometimes having awful covers, and that I read sf/fantasy from Baen, a publisher notorious for often having laughably awful covers, I'm not really in much of a position to pass up books based on cover impressions.
That said, pleasantly aesthetic and strikingly designed covers do catch my attention, and I've been known to try-from-library/acquire-if-freebie books on the basis of that even if nothing else seemed particularly promising about the subject/blurb at first glance.
And really bad covers are something of a turn-off if I know nothing else about the author/imprint to offset that impression.
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