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Originally Posted by GlennD
I'm curious though - does the speed that you read affect your opinion of series? I love to read series and will often reread an entire series when a new book is about to be released, so I can read it with the other books fresh in my mind. I've got friends who see that as too much of a time investment.
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I see it as way too much of an investment, too. Rather than read the first book of a five book series five times, the second book four times, the third book three times, the second book two times, and the final book once; I'll just wait 'til all five are published and read five books one time straight through. Using the time I would have spent on ten re-reads to read ten new books.
And that's with just the handful of series I let myself get sucked into. If you get involved in a ton of series, how long until the vast amount of time you spend reading would be dedicated to "refresher-course" re-reads? At some point, you wouldn't have the time to actually read the newest books you're brushing up for, would you? Five five-book series' with a new book coming out every year would have you re-reading fifty books just to get ready for five new books in year five. And that's assuming you don't get pulled into any new series' along the way!
EDIT: I admit my math could be a little off--or a lot--it made my head hurt a little. But you get the idea. It's a ton of re-re-re-re-re-reading any way you slice it.