This entire discussion should be prefaced with spoiler tags. For anyone who hasn't read Weber and HH in particular too many storylines are given away in plain text.

Curious. You are advocating for text but use BOLD for emphases. Do you remember that plain text has no bold? Nor italics, or chapter headings, plain text doesn't have much in the way of formatting.

My first HH book was War of Honor. I didn't realize it was book 10? of a series. This was one of the Baen books that had a CD bound into the back of the book. Imagine my joy and surprise to find all of the prior books in the series in multiple ebook formats. Not to mention books from other Baen authors, most of whose books and series I've read multiple times. The CD worked as intended, I became a lifelong reader of most of these authors.

But my absolute favorite is The Scarlet Pimpernel. I loved the mystery and adventure when I was younger, then the romance as I got older. The characters feel like old friends I get to visit on a regular basis.