Confessions of a book junkie

It's the covers (and especially the spines) that do it for me. I can be browsing in a bookshop, or a library, and it'll be the font on the spine that jumps out at me, making me take it down from the shelf. Then there's the cover to consider...before finally opening a couple of pages, scanning the text, and seeing if I fancy reading it.

I know. I should have a more literary method of deciding what to read next.

For fellow enthusiasts:

• there's a lovely exhibition on at the moment at my local art gallery, the Shipley, all about 70 years of Penguin design. They've got covers (and penguins) galore, and some rather covetable notebooks covered in images of spines.
• 30 novels worth buying for the cover alone
• redesigns of famous novels
• the Pelican project