You can literally skip whole pages (I did, actually) and not miss anything - they don't contribute with anything to the story.

But you can't skip pages in it.

Maugham was talking about skipping pages in books, not books themselves.

To come back to the question of skipping passages or pages in books, this is a dilemma.

She skipped several pages of the little notebook, and turned toward the end where Mr. Crowley had listed his possessions.

Grraf-Nig read bits and pieces, skipping pages.

Finally, three weeks ago, she could look through a collection of the photos without skipping pages.

Skip these paragraphs, skip whole pages, but keep reading.

She continued to read and finally started skipping pages, I believe already, but wheres the diet????

"You can skip pages, you can stop, you can rewind and fast forward."