Covers

I am wondering what is the best way to present my book . I want there to be a process of discovery for the reader. The cover, I feel should invite the critique to pick up the book and look at it because of a curiosity as to what is happening inside. The cover then becomes important. What makes a person pick up one book as opposed to another? The cover should also suggest what is to come either by way of text or graphics. How then do I want to alter the cover so that this curiosity is achieved. One idea is the cut one long stripe in the front cover that reveals the voided and solid sections inside. I wonder, though, if cutting a parallel strip goes too much against the perpendicular language that is happening in the book. Another idea is to cut seven marks into the book running in the same direction as the strips already created in the pages. Perhaps two of the strips align with a void that is already in the page so that in one moment there is a hole that penetrates entirely through the book. Also, in what way can I present the book so that it is not on display but rather available to the reader?