It depends. For technical books, yes. For fiction books, I always read it cover-to-cover (skipping the forewords). But there's one exception: I've read both bo

It depends. For technical books, yes. For fiction books, I always read it cover-to-cover (skipping the forewords). But there's one exception: I've read both books by Robert Love (Linux Kernel Development and Linux System Programming) from cover to cover.