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It would be a very rare fiction or plot-driven nonfiction book that would cause me to skip ahead. That said, sometimes when I've finished a book I wished I had done the skipping.
On the other hand, I have a very hard time not reading something when I see the words in the book. This was more of a problem with pbooks (that I rarely read now) because they sometimes somehow happen to open in the course of things on another page or more specifically, god forbid, the end, and if the words are there in front of me I'd end up reading enough (too many) of them before I could help myself. This was a recurring motif when I was young and I tried to be careful to never let the book open to a later page, lol.
But I'm still not out of the woods, not even with age and ebooks, because this also lends to the associated though lesser problem, when I'm really into a book or nearing the end, of absorbing the end of a page when I get to it before properly reading the upper parts. My eyes just won't behave! Even if I'm focusing on the top of the page my peripheral vision will somehow pick up the bottom if my mind's in the mood of 'really want to know what's going to happen/how it ends'. If I remember in time, something I do to combat this whenever that mood strikes is to use a piece of paper or my hand or whatnot to physically cover the page and move it down line by line so that I can't let my eyes spoil myself.
And don't even get me started on chapters with vaguely (or explicitly) spoilerish titles that are all listed in the front of a book. Naively opening a new book, my naughty eyes will have read them before I can get the page turned past.
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