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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
And...?
Not a single bookstore on my streets.
I honestly don't understand the pushback against my claim. I'm not saying anyone else is wrong for being influenced by covers, I'm saying my process of acquiring books to read, bypasses images for the most part. What's so hard to believe about that? I'm not immune to visual stimuli, I just don't SEE bookcovers (especially not before I buy them). Because I don't want to.
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And you do judge people according to their look. You just usually don't act on it, since you're probably a normal person. And you also probably try to compensate.
I fully believe you when you say you have adopted a purchase method which make you not look at covers. You're right when you say, somehow, that you are not influenced by them because you don't look at them. But it's kind of a stupid statement. I did compare your situation to someone who avoids the sun and is white like a vampire.
Another way to say what you want to say would be: I am influenced by book covers, but I try my best not to look at them.
I see you are trying to explain there's no bookstore in your vicinity, but it's misguided to go this path. Are you confidently saying you will never in your life be travelling? Or that you currently don't ever travel? You don't ever browse internet randomly, your gaze never set its focus on any cover EVER? This is a ridiculous route. Even then, if avoiding book covers dictate that much your life, then it's particulary true for you that covers influence you.
Most people try to make good purchase, and most people try to compensate for how cover influence them (because ultimately they want to buy good books). Everyone is tampering how much the covers affects them, because experience has told them that it's not 100% reliable (or they are watching their budget, whatever).
Doesn't change the fact the game is there.
You are trying your best not to look at covers in order not to be influenced by them. Good for you. The general statement "covers influence you" still holds true. The same way "The sun makes you tan".