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I mostly view my book collection as a collection of covers so having good looking covers is very important to me.
I replace the cover around 90% of the time since the provided cover tends to be either ugly or fine but not high resolution enough. There are plenty of books that I only read, or at least read much sooner, because I changed the cover to something more engaging than they had before. Typing it out like this admittedly sounds a little silly, but this is legitimately the reason why I put so much effort into finding the best possible cover, even if that means using a cover from another edition.
Sometimes the best looking cover is only available (in high enough resolution) as a photo of the book itself and I have to crop and perspective-transform to get it nice and flat again.
Other times a cover is great but has those obnoxious stickers/labels on it about being the "Winner of the It's a Book Prize" or "17th Anniversary Edition" or stuff like that, so if I can't find the cover without it and the underlying design isn't too intricate I just photoshop those out entirely.
If I'm feeling particularly picky I also sometimes edit out mentions "With a foreword by [...]" If my particular ebook edition does not include said foreword, but most of the time it doesn't bother me.
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