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Originally Posted by haertig
I prefer for the book to open at the very first page - the cover. Then I can more conveniently choose what I want to skip over, not somebody else.
I pretty much always start reading at the prologue after having skipped everything previous, but occasionally there is stuff before that I am interested in. A graphic of a map, for example. Or an epilogue that sets the stage for the novel. Bottom line - I want to decide what is important for me, not somebody else. And this may vary from novel to novel. When some pretentious fool, the editor or whatever, decides to jump ahead with the eBook start point, I just scroll back and wipe out their decision ... and set my own start point. It's not that annoying to be required to do this, but I'd rather not have to.
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This.
As for reviews, other titles and all such absolutely unnecessary stuff, I delete them in the Calibre editor before transferring books to my reader. The same goes for excerpts from other books in the end - I totally hate those.