That’s very true. Even with network TV, I’ve found myself waiting until I have 2 or 3 episodes on my DVR before I sit down and watch them now.

Usually, if I know a book has a major cliffhanger, I’ll try to wait until the second one is close to being released before I read the first one.

Easy enough and good enough to binge — That’s a good way to put it.

I really liked Jessica Jones too. I didn’t like Luke Cage as much because it just didn’t seem like there was as much action in it as there was in JJ or especially Daredevil. A lot of the characters in LC seemed to keep talking about what they were going to do, but it seemed to take them a long time to get around to actually doing anything.

Yeah, I can binge something shorter or lighter — like comics or contemporary romance — but I can’t do the same thing with long, epic fantasy books. I have to make time in my schedule to sit down and read those.

I think I have to find them easy enough to consume to want another bite, so to speak, but also good enough to want another bite.

Luke Cage, for me, was too localised in Harlem and American racial history. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that as a topic, but being based in the UK it made it harder for me to connect with so I didn’t watch it. Jessica Jones was about abused women and a possible form of coping with being a survivor of abuse and while it was very dark in places it was always compelling and accessible so I binged it.

With an author, lighter reads, shorter books (there’s a definite trend that way in some genres since the rise of the eBook and self-publishing IMO) I’m more likely to consume 2, 3, 4 books in a row. If I’m reading (or rereading) someone like Stephen Donaldson or Steven Erikson where the physical books can be used as a deadly (if blunt) weapon, I’m much less likely to read several of them in a row, however much I like the stories.