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Anonymous Fri Jul 22 02:44:00 2011 No.1948182 [Reply] [Original]

How often do you guys pickup a book to read just because it has a neat artwork cover on it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 02:45:00 2011 No.1948187 Never.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 02:45:00 2011 No.1948188 >>1948182 Not one single occasion in my entire existence OP. I'm not a fucking retard.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 02:48:00 2011 No.1948189 Sometimes.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 02:49:00 2011 No.1948193 File: 7 KB, 235x235, untitled.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >buying a book just because of the cover I seriously hope you don't do this.

Jo Fri Jul 22 02:49:00 2011 No.1948194

Screw it, I'll bite.
I bought a few books from my library booksale for their neat covers. It was more that the covers brought me over to the books. I read the summary and a few pages, and decided to get them.
They were mostly chick-lit and bad novels overall, but still the cover played a part.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 10:38:00 2011 No.1948996 What was it people used to say? 'don't judge a book on the cover'? yeah i think it was that. I took that shit to heart.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 10:43:00 2011 No.1949003 When I was about 6 or something I got a copy of a book called Second Nature by Cherry Wilder (or something like that) because it had cool cover art. I think that was the only time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 10:50:00 2011 No.1949010 >>1948182 I don't really buy a book because of its cover, but it does determine what edition I buy. My bookshelf is also sorted by colour.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 10:50:00 2011 No.1949011 Never. Time is too precious to waste my time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 10:58:00 2011 No.1949022 No, but I have been embarrassed of reading a book in public based on its cover. My copy of Steppenwolf is ugly as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 12:09:00 2011 No.1949088 CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING: The Lobster Phlebas The Oyster The Lilies of the Field

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>>	Tom Harper !agc.6D4SKQ!!6S3i+JD8/EQ Fri Jul 22 12:34:00 2011 No.1949115 >>1949010 I'm with this guy, it just influences my choice of edition. Even though I own 2 different editions of A Clockwork Orange and am by tempted by a third.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 22 12:54:00 2011 No.1949129 I like my books to have plain covers, something stupid like neat artwork or a picture of a bird and a lake would make me less likely to pick it up.

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