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Originally Posted by Katsunami
It would be so simple to add a paragraph.
"Skip this introduction if you are reading this work for the first time. It is intended for people who are rereading this book and wish to gain additional understanding; reading the introduction before your first read of the work may spoil the story for you."
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I agree. As a young teen, not having the experience to know what scholarly introductions were like, I made the mistake of reading the introduction to a Jane Austen novel which had a spoiler about which characters ended up together. Sure, I would probably have figured it out for myself long before the end of the book, but I would rather have done it on my own than have the ending told to me before I even read the first page of the story.