Do you read acknowledgements?

[Atilium she/her]

I do. I love reading them! Especially Brandon's, they often contain little easter eggs. 

[Delightful]

I read Brandon's, especially to look for Peter's titles. Other authors acknowledgments I read if they're short or if I'm bothered. Not generally though.

[Left he/him]

I almost always do, although if they're two pages long- and I've seen those plenty of times- then I skim read it.

[Edgedancer he/him]

I usually start reading them and, if there is nothing out of the ordinary, I start skimming.

[Kobold King he/him]

I rarely read the acknowledgements. Except when the acknowledgements make up the entirety of an e-book sample. 

[Mistdork she/her]

Never read O.S. Card's acknowledgments/forewords in his books...bleh. Talk about being slightly obnoxious (I'm thinking mostly about Ender's Game).

And no, I have a tendency to skip them these days, though...

[king of nowhere]

I started reading them on sanderson's books, but now I always read them. I feel that if the author felt important to thank those people, then I owe them reading their names.

Bonus point if they contain easter eggs (like all the improbable adjectives for peter halstrom)

[GreyPilgrim he/him]

I have this strange obsession that in order to have truly read a book I must have read every single word in it. This means that I read title pages, acknowledgements, copyright pages, etc.; any reading material provided by the book.

So yes, I do read acknowledgements. Usually they are either short or entertaining in their own right (citing Brandon's) and sometimes they are a combination of both.

[Sir Jerric he/him]

I didn't read them back in my teenage years and earlier, but as I've become more serious about writing I've grown to appreciate the little insights into the behind-the-scenes of bringing a work to market.

[Reiyeka she/her]

I almost always read the acknowledgments. Gotta read the book cover to cover, as people like to say. I do skim them if it's just a big list of names, but I enjoy reading all the special notes and thanks that are usually there. I especially like reading about who the book is dedicated to and any notes about family members. It's good to start off remembering that a human filled all the pages you are about to read and that it took many humans to make it so those pages could get into your hands. 

[Tien'sPetLurg she/her]

As I've gotten older, acknowledgements (and album liner notes) have become more interesting to me. It's good to see successful people noting that the end product required the effort of many other people. We need all types of people to get things done.