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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I'm not trying to convince anyone that ignoring covers is "better," by the way. I'm just trying to convince perhaps a couple that correlating bad cover-art to shoddy writing (or great art to better writing) when looking for new books (e or p) is probably not as "default" a behavior as they believed it to be.
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Eh. Echoing Jon, there are a lot of books out there and even a lot of books I'd like. Some filters are going to be coarse. If eliminating books on the basis of lousy covers results in missing out on the occasional nugget, so be it. I can't read everything I'd like to read anyway, and for me, at least, it's a worthwhile screen. I have a low tolerance for indies anyway, as I've said, and avoiding those huge early eye-rolls at incompetent writing and the time wasted between cracking a book and hitting "Delete" is well worth it.