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Originally Posted by DNSB
Actually, I never visited B. Dalton. As for purchasing a book by an author new to me? For the most part I got recommendations from meeting authors at cons, the SFFandom group on FidoNet and prior to that, from other local SF fen. Since most of the bookstores I was in stored the books with the spine out, the title was what would catch my eye not the cover since that was not really visible until I had already pulled the book out.
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I'm sure that you are the only person on Earth who never saw a book cover prior to having the book recommended to you by someone, or, if in desperation, perhaps at an airport bookstore, only picked up books that were shelved spine out and when a title (and a title
alone) intrigued you, you would pull the book in such a way as to scan the back first. You probably didn't even know books had illustrated covers!