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Originally Posted by BetterRed
I'm initially 'attracted' to a book by its author or subject matter, never the cover, I read a lot of biographies, histories etc. The first thing I look at is the the blurb on the back or dust jacket flaps.
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True, but for me any book comprises the whole: cover, back-page, blurb, pictures (if any) and text. Oh, and the smell of ink (still not yet a feature of ebooks, but who knows
calibre might already think about that feature...).
Further, I did read once a whodunnit and the cover artist had cleverly hidden clues in the cover image, so yes, there the cover *did* matter.
That said: there are collectors who collect certain issues and re-issues of the same book and value the details of the changes in cover design.
But of course, YMMV which is a good thing.