Craft books are a great resource for ideas and information and techniques. They usually contain color pages optimized to appeal to your attraction to bright and colorful things. But this also makes them expensive.
Which is why the library is your friend. I love my free public libraries. They will probably have a bigger variety of crafting books than you think. And if your library is part of a community of local libraries, you can request others that may not be near you. They might even have some newer books.
If they don't have the variety of crafting books you're looking for, you can always check out your local bookstores. The big chains Barnes & Noble and Borders have hobbies sections with all sorts of recent craft books. I enjoy flipping through its colorful pages and getting new ideas and twists on old ones.
And don't forget to carry a notebook around to jot down those ideas and inspirations. It's also good to just generally carry a notebook around because you never know when you'll see something you like in other stores, on TV, even on other people.
