I read darn near everything in a book. Here's a list of everything I've been known to read:
- copyrights page (if I really like the cover art or if I can't tell if I may have read the book before in a different printing/cover cycle)
- previous works written list
- dedication
- acknowledgements
- any quotes or sayings that act as a mini-prologue to a novel
- prologues (!!)
- table of contents
- the novel
- about the author
- about the typesetting (a few books have this, and I always find it interesting)
- any Q&A included in the back
- author's notes
- bibliography (usually skimmed, but still interesting)
What I don't read:
- marketing quotes about how great this novel is (or any others the author has written)
- teaser first chapters of the next novel (I hate the feeling when I start a book that the words are so familiar, I should know what's going to happen but don't. If I know I like the author, I know I'm going to buy the next book. Reading the teaser usually also ruins the complete/conclusive feeling of the novel by opening the world back up again--if it's a series--or by starting a new set of characters' tale, which at that point, I don't care about, because I just want more of the characters I was just reading.)
- ads for other books (occasionally I read these, but it's so rare, it's closer to never than often)
Am I obsessive? Do you read all these things? Do you read what I don't?
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