On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Matthew Hunter wrote: > The number of people who will buy only the 2nd book in a series > when the third book has just come out is presumably a very small > number. As a younger man I drove myself (and whomever I could get to drive) crazy because I would inadvertantly buy a new book only to discover it was the xth in the series, where x>1. I did this more often than I care to admit. Fortunately this lead to enlightenment, and I suspect I'm not the only one who has had this experience.