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Originally Posted by Fiat_Lux
There are people who are interested in specific books, purely for the content. Condition is literally irrelevant. They aren't collectors. They merely want the information in the book.
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Yes, this. Anyone who's bought 4 books for a dollar from Goodwill is likely plenty happy to get recent genre books with no covers for the same price. I remember buying cover-free books as a teenager and having no idea that the missing cover meant anything more than "this got torn at some point." (I think this was a few titles in thrift stores, so likely single copies grabbed from dumpsters rather than entire crates grabbed for resale purposes.)
If your main interest in acquiring books is to read them, a missing cover is a minor nuisance - it means the title page is more likely to get wrinkled, so maybe you should replace the cover with a bit of cardstock or something like that.
If you also want to have a nice-looking, shareable collection, then yeah, a missing cover is a problem. If you want to be able to resell it, then the missing cover is a problem. But if you're going to read it and leave it at a bus stop somewhere for someone else, lack of a nice-looking cover doesn't impede that at all.