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@sourcejedi, origin story, thanks, I didn't know that.

@all. By timing I intended to mean in general that the HC comes first and I have to wait for the MMP. The eARC comes first and I have to wait for the eFinal. The wait may be less time in the case of the eFinal for it to go through editing/proofing. The HC already went through most of that and the timing for paperback release has more to do with paperworld production factors while eworld final production requires less time.

Waiting is all that matters to me because I'm generally impatient and don't like waiting. So for awhile early on many years ago when I could finally afford it, I bought HCs instead of MMPs. Not having to wait was nice. But they used up too much shelf-space so I bit the bullet of waiting and went back to MMPs. If I liked one so much that it started falling apart I replaced it with another copy.

In the case of ARCs, I'd rather wait to read that title in its final form.