I started reading a book and somehow the e-reader software I was using started it at 90% through. I did not realize this fact and almost abandoned the novel because it was completely incomprehensible.

Feeling very dumb as reading comprehension is not something I typically struggle with, I started paging back through the book and and then realized that in fact I had not read almost the entire thing. That explained why characters I’d never heard of with information everyone seemed to already know well kept popping up, referencing events I’d never read in way that implied I should know about them.

I have no idea how the e-reader software jumped from the title page to 90% through. It has never done that before and I cannot reproduce it. So the book is not actually an indecipherable mess, I am happy to report.