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My first reaction was to say that I have to have the whole series if I have any of them, being a completest collector at heart. But then I started thinking about what I actually read-- your Xanth mention, for example-- I read the first 3 or 4, then quit. And more recently, gave up on Anita Blake after 7 books. Could hardly stand to finish the first of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. Plenty of other examples of series I started, then stopped reading even though there are some (or freaking lots) of books left.
As for my downloading habits-- those are still completest. I download every copy I can find of a series if I've downloaded one of them-- even if it is a series I haven't started reading yet so, don't know if I'll like it. Even if it is a series I know that I don't like, just in case some day, for some reason, I might have some use for them. So I have more than 30 Xanth epubs here somewhere that I'll likely never read. I have 20 Anita Blake books here that I'm 99.999% likely to never read. I have a few series here extending past 10 books that I've never even read a word of yet....
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