I think reading music is important, but there's no reason to bore yourself with it if you dont want to. Why play guitar if its not fun, right?
Anyway, if you looking into learning chords and licks but think reading music is boring, try Belwin's 21st Century Rock Shop books. Thats one of the books I learned from. Its a three book series and you learn a lot. The sight reading is easy because all the licks are just transposed into other keys and used in examples throughout the book. Its more of an incentive to go furthur, ya know?