I usually plan my visits to Half Price -- I've been known to spend hours in that store. Even though I need to stay off my foot I'm trying to get my friend to drive me to Half Price, KMart and Walmart and Barnes and Noble on Tuesday -- I just have to have new releases when they first come out.
You ask "Why Do I Read" -- I read to take my mind off my problems. I started reading when I was young and I remember going to the library and falling in love with Nancy Drew and the Bobsey Twins.
I have to admit that I've never brought a book strictly by it's cover. I've picked up books to read the blurbs because of a cover. What I dislike are cover errors -- hero/heroine with a different color hair than what's in the book or a book cover that has nothing to do with the storyline.