When you are reading a book, do you actually select the edition that you are reading, do you not really care, or do you select the prettiest cover, if there is more than one available?

To be honest, I typically select the prettiest. Since we can select the medium (print, ebook, audio) separatel, I just look through the editions and pick whichever editions I like best. Sometimes not even the language matches (i.e. I read in german but like the english cover better)

Does anyone else do this?

(Edit: I just realised I can’t translate this literally (I think): Hand on heart is a german expression that basically means “speak from the heart”/“be honest”) (Edit 2: I found out “Hand on Heart” exists in english too! Yeay languages!!)

This is so freaking cool.

This quote from Jurassic Park keeps coming to mind. “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” Ian Malcolm would’ve hated Victor Frankenstein.