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Originally Posted by shalym
In my life, books are not art, and I usually don't even look at the cover long enough to remember what it looked like.
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Same here. I can appreciate beautiful artwork (wherever I encounter it), but I typically don't even consider cover art a part of the book. Especially in this day and age where authors (other than indie authors) rarely have any input in what art goes on the cover of their book anyway. It's eye-candy that I look at and, then promptly forget about (I quite often threw away a hardback's dustcover. Those things were a PITA).
I don't do picture books (unless the author has done the illustrations--a la Brom); I don't really care if the first letter is dropped or raised, so "pretty" doesn't enter in to it.
"Competent and clean" allows me to forget about any packaging-as-art nonsense and focus on the content--where the real beauty lies. Everything else is usually just individual (and highly subjective) fetish. A fetish that ebooks/ereaders actually accommodates
better than print.
I'm exempting books containing (and/or) about visual art, of course.