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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.
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Ridiculous is putting my claim through that kind of extreme scrutiny to prove me "wrong."
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Doesn't change the fact the game is there.
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Never claimed the game wasn't there. Just that I'm not an active player.
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You are trying your best not to look at covers in order not to be influenced by them.
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Nope. I'm trying to my best (and it's not at all difficult for me) to not look at covers primarily because I don't see the point of cover art on fiction. I don't need/want it. I don't display it, I don't cherish it, I don't choose (or decline) books because of it. I would rather it not be there. That I might occasionally "SEE" a cover in my forays into book-buying doesn't change any of that.
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Good for you.
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Thanks. Was that so hard? Congratulations to you too, for apparently using covers to do your book browsing.
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The general statement "covers influence you" still holds true. The same way "The sun makes you tan".
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OK. How's this then: when I deign to notice cover-art ... it influences me (as looking at any visual artwork would "influence" me). Just not in a buy/not buy way.