Do We Really Judge Books by Their Covers? 

The term “never judge a book by its cover” has been preached to us since we were kids, but no matter the warnings, that’s still exactly what we do, isn’t it? When our fingers drift over spines in bookstores, they don’t stop to pull out the bland books. Instead, they curl around the bright ones, the artistic ones, the pretty ones – the ones with the sprayed edges or gold foiling.