On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:53:59 -0500 (EST), Ike Porter <ike at manor.org> wrote: > 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. > Ah, I have done this many times. I read _Dragon_ and discovered that this was the last (at the time) in a series of many. My fiance rented movie one of an anime series called Berserk. He found all the others to buy except number one. And by the time he found a box set, he already had all the movies except the first. He found a used copy of the movie the same day I didn't get book LOCB. -C