A ques related to time between two volume
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Generally speaking, if something is good enough to get me to read a series, it's good enough to read more than once. My memory isn't perfect, and I sometimes find myself having to remember which things Souma did and which things Touya did ("which world is being built here again?"), and I don't read 40 different series side-by-side, so it is less of a problem to re-involve myself in the world through reading it again.
It's been that way for a while - in high school, I'd read "2001" more times than the teacher who assigned it to our literature class...
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If I need to refresh my memory I reread the last chapters, or search for a summary.
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@lex where do you search summary volume wise??
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Sometimes the summaries on JNC are enough, or I search on Wikipedia or the series own wiki if exists.
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Not sure if this was mentioned but sometimes comments remind me of stuff I’ve long forgotten. I usually don’t forget about certain series after a long wait. It really depends on how interesting the series was in the first place.
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This comes up with the original Japanese novels, too; those get released every 4-5 months under normal circumstances, ior longer if issues come up, or in the case of a web novel, getting caught up with web novel material so the author has to write more first. So it's not something unique to localizations.
For that reason, it seems a lot of light novels' later volumes like to recap events that happened in previous volumes, either at the beginning or right before when past events would be relevant again. There may also be things like character profiles, either placed within the color illustrations or as a separate page. Of course there may still need to be some re-reading of past content, but overall I think the issue of gaps in releases isn't all that bad.
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I don't read one book at a time. I read many books and many series at a time and I hardly forget characters or plotlines. If has been months or even a few years, I can get back into the flow.
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@drone205 said in A ques related to time between two volume:
I don't read one book at a time. I read many books and many series at a time and I hardly forget characters or plotlines. If has been months or even a few years, I can get back into the flow.
But you cant remember what your teacher told you last Monday.
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Since I read just about everything JNC translates, everything stays pretty fresh in my mind. We don't have a huge number of series that are languishing in "waiting for the next volume" hell. Now YP with their 4 months between volumes does cause one some continuity issues. Fortunately, I only read two of their titles.
I'm going to be hurting when the next volume of Mixed Bathing in Another Dimension, Faraway Paladin or Clockwork Planet comes out. Not so much with Occultic;Nine or Walking My Second Path in Life
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Prepubs I read like a serialisation so it's a bit every week, then two or three week gap between volumes. I don't need reminding in that time frame.
For every JNC series I buy Premium ePubs for, I don't read the prepubs cause I have too much to read as it is. For full volumes my process is when a new volume comes out I send it to my phone & reread the previous volume to remind me what was going on, then read the new volume. Another 2-3mths later I do the same with the next volume release, so I end up reading everything twice within about the time it takes JNC to release a new volume.
I do the same thing with the LNs from Yen etc, even though the gap between volumes is longer one volume behind then the new one seems to still work for me.
Very occasionally I'll reread an entire series if I don't have much to read, but as I'm buying more and more series these days I'm getting less chance to do that.
