Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon discussion

Do you judge books by their covers? Be honest.

I do most of the times. At the bookstore, I check the covers and buy the ones that look nice. Normally I check reviews too but the cover is what takes my attention

I have a couple of publishing houses whose covers I really like and prefer to have my own copy from them!

The childrens books I choose promised illustrations within.
Peter Pan


Pinocchio


I may yet read
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Yes!
I don't like cozy mysteries and they always have a cover type so I can weed them out quickly.

I mostly pick based on recommendations from my buddy reading groups, so covers don‘t really come into it for those picks.

If I look at general lists of new publications, I am swayed to look at blurbs with prettier covers first. For example anything with naked people is skipped… 😝 or if there is kissing etc involved on the cover.

Similar book types/genres tend to have similar cover styles, so it can be a great help to look at book blurbs with covers that remind me of books I really liked.

Absolutely . And I have been dead wrong a lot of times .
But , over the years , I have learned to read the plethora of online book reviews about the book , read the book jacket summaries and save the purchase reciept . If it's not a sale book it can probably be returned within 30 days .

I absolutely do! There have been many times when I picked up books just because I thought the cover was interesting. Surprisingly, there haven't been many times when I've been wrong for doing so.