Books - do you read the preface/introduction?

[LaCroix]

fuck books :nodak:

[CountDeMoney]

A good introduction to a non-fiction book summarises the arguments the author is seeking to make. I find it useful - you know what the agenda is and can evaluate accordingly.

So you wrote your book reports on Sunday night too, huh.

[Syt]

In ye old pre-internet days, I always made sure to only volunteer for book reports where I knew that the town library had summary + interpretations.

[Eddie Teach]

A good introduction to a non-fiction book summarises the arguments the author is seeking to make. I find it useful - you know what the agenda is and can evaluate accordingly.

So you wrote your book reports on Sunday night too, huh.

Technically, I wrote mine on Monday morning.

[Gups]

A good introduction to a non-fiction book summarises the arguments the author is seeking to make. I find it useful - you know what the agenda is and can evaluate accordingly.

So you wrote your book reports on Sunday night too, huh.

Yeah, we didn't have Wiki in those days. Fucking kids don't know they're born

[11B4V]

Sometimes, depends.

[The Brain]

Sometimes, depends.

[Josquius]

It's part of the book and is usually pretty short so sure.

[CountDeMoney]

Ed gets pissy when the tabs don't work on the pop-ups.

[Ed Anger]

Ed gets pissy when the tabs don't work on the pop-ups.

Fuck yeah.

[grumbler]

Sometimes, depends.

Other times, piss your pants?

[11B4V]

Sometimes, depends.

Other times, piss your pants?

Depends if it's rambling.

[Eddie Teach]

You don't *have* to finish the preface before you go to the bathroom, you know. 

[Admiral Yi]

Non-fiction prefaces usually bore me, as do fiction forwards by someone other than the author.

[Grinning_Colossus]

Hell no. Sometimes I just jump 1/3 of the way into a book to spare myself the boring stuff.