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Sometimes I find an author that I'd like to check out. Looking at their booklist, they have a lot of books, and a lot of series I can dig into. But when I look closer, I see that it's an umpteenth spinoff, and there are about 50 books I should read first. This stops me from buying the books. Authors who have interconnected series often scare away new readers. It just gets too daunting to even start.