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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I'm another one of those exceptions. I simply don't care about cover images. I didn't care about them with physical books either. Reviews (or recommendations), product descriptions and prior read authors are the only factors for me when purchasing. Cover art can be quite beautiful sometimes, but it's also usually unrelated—and oftentimes downright misleading—noise. I tend to filter noise wherever possible.
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Likewise, I am neutral about cover art, especially since being a Kindle user. The Kindle I use doesn't display the cover art in the listing of books in my library unless I hit the right button on the 5 way thing, and even then it is small and understated.
I also prefer the plain vanilla text of a book (except for
actual illustrations). But books with tons of "images" in the folder that are nothing more than chapter header logos and a huge calligraphic first letter of a paragraph, it's just sticking extra "stuff" in there when all I ever pay attention to is the story. (my first ebook experience was Gutenberg, then MR and it kind of stuck)
There are very few books that I don't convert to my preferences anyway, and when I 'explode' epub, the first thing to go is the fancy chapter headers which bloat a book which has really 400K of text into a 5MB file. I recently reduced a book I bought to its actual text content from a bloated state. I think all of that superfluous nonsense is why publishers insist that ebooks "cost as much to produce" as a printed book
