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To me, canon is limited to what I want. As Star Wars it’s the most obvious example here, the only consistent canon for me is the OT. I enjoy the prequels, especially in edited form, more than most here, but they are “deuterocanonical” to me. When watching them, I can treat them as prequels. When watching the sequels, I can treat them as sequels and disregard the prequels. When reading the Thrawn Trilogy, I can treat them as the sequels and disregard the ST. And even when I read Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, I can disregard TESB as the sequel to SW. In other words, I can accept the Star Wars universe in various iterations without getting hung up. All of them are fictional anyway, so sometimes I just treat as canonical what makes sense in a particular situation. Only SW77 is consistent canon for me in 100% of all situations, with the other members of the OT equally canon in the second most situations.
Before I post this, it occurs to me that I should further point out that I love the radio dramas and novels in spite of their contradictions with the movie canon. I accept them internally and I’m fine with it. In fact, I love looking at them as alternative interpretations. Who would want only a single way to look at a fictional universe?