Authors/readers, in a series. what do you feel is the right amount of info-dumping to get the reader up to speed on "the story so far"? I'm sometimes frustrated with authors, where after the 7th+ book in a series, they attempt to get reader up to speed on every piece of backstory (repetitive). After 7+ books, can't an author expect that the reader is likely invested enough to know what's going on? Are there readers that will start a series 7 books in?
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@steaphan
Two separate things:
1) Sometimes a reader will pick up a book not knowing it's part of a series.
2) More commonly, seven books in a reader will often have forgotten key parts of what's already happened. Especially when books are coming out a year or more apart.
There's different ways to handle it, and a straight info dump is usually not the best, but sometimes it works.