This is mainly an issue with digital books that I've seen, but could also be an issue omnibus.

When beginning a book, I'd love an option to choose that I started on page 30, for example. Otherwise I have to start on page 1, than skip 29 pages of cover, acknowledgements, table of contents, and other pre-ambles to get to the book, which then messes up the pages read stats because while I only read 10 pages, the tracking will say 40.