Oh, that makes sense! I wonder if I might have been more tempted to jump ahead to current chapters if I hadn't been so thoroughly warned to avoid spoilers, which meant that I was neither looking at anything beyond where I was (gnine warned me not even to look at volume titles), nor participating in any kind of fan community.

On the one hand, I'm pretty committed to experiencing things in order, so probably not... on the other hand, exposure to fan discussions/fanworks has certainly led me to seek out bits of a story out of order before, so who knows? I think I'm more likely to do that when I don't know a fandom at all, though (i.e. the only real exposure I have to the medium is through fandom in the first place - I count Harry Potter in this category).