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Basically all my bought ebooks seem to start on the first chapter (or prologue, if the book has one).
Mostly that's okay but it does mean I miss out on all the beginning matter - and sometimes, one really shouldn't (yes, most acknowledgements etc are somewhat dull if you're not particularly close to the author - a list of names of people you've never heard of doesn't make for a fun read, but they're easy enough to skip, but then every now and again there are authors and books whose acknowledgements and author bios are well worth the read; author bio blurbs on the back cover flap are one reason I buy the Skulduggery Pleasant books in hardback as well as ebook, because it's the one thing that doesn't get included in ebooks - acknowledgements fortunately do, although one needs to page back to get to them!).
Anyway, yes, most books these days tend to have a decent enough table of contents, and even if for some reason your bought books start at the cover and don't skip automatically to chapter one (I'm not sure if that's a reader or shop thing? on my Kindle, both Amazon-bought and sideloaded books tend to start on the first chapter - I assume there's a publisher-specified "start here" in the books?), all that front matter is easy enough to skip completely, if one is impatient and knows it won't hold anything of interest.
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