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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I don't see where it's that different from keeping up with more that one TV or movie series at a time. 
Don't you keep up with more than one thread at a time in this forum? |
Threads in the Forum don't really have a narrative to keep track of. I do spend a lot of time reading backwards when I get lost though. As for TV shows, I generally tivo a whole season and then watch it all at once, but there are a few shows I watch week to week, and I find that I get confused over which events happened in which show, so not ideal.
TV show storylines (that aren't babylon 5) generally don't have a deep narrative, you can mostly jump in at any episode and not have to worry about what happened earlier. They'll tell you the important bits at the beginning of the episode. Books don't generally do that chapter to chapter.
When I was reading the Belgariad and Mallorean as they came out, I would reread the entire series for each book that came out. By the last book, I had read the first five 6 times. (I bought the first 5 all at once). the same for the Honor Harrington series, and Harry Potter. If I don't do that, then I can't keep track of the storylines.