u/Aggressive-Ad3232

Hello fellow series readers — I have a question that's been bugging me and I want to know if it's just me.

You take a 6 month gap between books in a series. You pick up book 4. And within the first chapter you're thinking: wait, who is this character again? What happened at the end of the last one? Why do these two hate each other?

So you either Google it and accidentally get spoiled, dig through wiki pages for 20 minutes, or just push through confused.

Is this a real problem for you? How do you currently deal with it?

Asking because I'm researching whether there's a better solution for physical book readers specifically — would love to hear how people actually handle this.

Thank you