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My memory is horribly quirky but I do enjoy series fiction as long as each book either has a full plot or the (sub)series is short. I have never been able to reliably remember all details from the beginning of a book to the end knowing so being able to keep track of all details from one book to another has never been much of a concern. Spoilers are simply not something that effects my enjoyment and my grasp of chronology or character development isn't often helped by reading in series order or hindered by reading out of series order so I don't really care about reading books with a standalone plot out of order (the associations I lose by not having read an earlier book are generally made up for by associations gained from reading a later book -wondering what happened is just as enjoyable as wondering where they are going).
(In fact I read fanfic for shows I've never seen just to enjoy the gradual accumulation of 'canon' knowledge acquired though the different retellings (it's like studying folktales and/or history!))
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