When you're the type of person who commits.
Me, after watching 8 seasons of some idiotic streaming show.

"I just wanted to know how it ends!"

It never really pays off, just read a summary.

That’s how I handled most of the New Jedi Order books, the mainline Star Wars Legacy books that take place after that, and also the Dune books by Brian Herbert and KJA.

The Star Wars books at least sound good in outline form. I’m not about to spend any time reading them for real to find out otherwise. The latter day Dune books, OTOH, sound like absolute shite even in the summary.

I read a bunch of the star wars books that came out after disney took over. They were… Not good. Like 4 out of 15 or so were even okay.