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Originally Posted by Bertolt
I wait till it's been out a year or so. What's the rush? Books often cost a LOT less after the initial interest has subsided a bit. It's still the same book you're reading 12 months later and it's often only 25 percent of the original price. If it's a good book now, it will be a good book 12 months later too.
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It makes discussing the book with friends - sharing theories, squeeing, comparing reactions, guessing what might happen in the next book, etc etc - quite a bit trickier if you wait for a year. Especially if you're in the fandom for a book/series. ;-)
Of course plenty of people prefer to keep reading a solitary activity, but it
can also be a social activity; with series in particular it can be fun and rewarding to discuss plots, characters & theories with friends/others into the same series. Waiting for a year for everything means giving up on all that plus the chances of running into spoilers increases considerably - again not something that is important to everyone but there are plenty of people who really would prefer not to know some important plot twist in advance.
I don't read everything on release; with most books, I can easily wait and it's not like I'll run out of things to read in the meantime (I'm also still young enough and in good enough health that, barring accidents, I anticipate I'll still be here to read those books next year). But there
are plenty of people who have series/authors/books they wait for, impatiently, ready to grab the book the moment it's available, because they've already been waiting for it for a year, counting down the days,
needing to know what happens next.
