I read them ALWAYS back to front. How about you?

[Junerain]

I love reading in depth interviews about what one has gone through in this life....combined with the pictures and the highlighted quotes, I have learned and grown quite a bit....

[Sabrina]

I try not to but always end up flipping through the pages back to front.

[Typo]

Always back to front, I don't know why but I've always read a magazine like that unless there is an artical I just have to read right off the bat.

hehehe, the chanllenge here would be reading a book back to front then making sense of it, or better yet an instruction manual back to front.

[radio_flyer]

back to front

[splitimage]

Mostly front to back, but really I flip back and forth as stuff looks interesting. Don't read that many magazines anymore anyway, except at the hairdresser or waiting at my T's for my appointment to start. I have thought about subscribing to the Economist again, but it's a bit pricey.

--splitimage

wow - looks like im not as weird as i thought for reading from the back to the front! I wonder why we do that? It just seems better to me..lol.

I sort out the gory stories first then go for the tearfull ones then the problem pages then the stars then bin it lol.

so sort of front to back back to front.

[iamtwilight]

I read a magazine both from front to back and back to front, but also starting from the middle and then choosing to go either forward or backwards.

It depends on the day, I guess.

[x_BabyG_x]

Back to front without fail lol, theres something about reading it normally it seems uncomfortable ina way!!

babyg xXx

[AAAAA]

You didn't give an option for neither! I read the articles that interest me most, then it becomes bathroom material and I read the rest of it there.

[okiedokie]

back to front and usually on the toilet too! LOL! There is just not enough time in the day.....

Okie

hmmmmmm... I am "odd" one out... I open to middle.. then... go to back... then from middle to front...

[sunrise]

Neither. I go to random pages and look for stories that interest me. I never read an entire magazine, just whatever interests me, here and there, in no special order. Sometimes I go to the table of contents to help me identify the interesting stories. I actually had no idea some people looked through a magazine cover to cover. I guess I'm an odd bird.

OOPS! sorry everyone, i forgot to include that option

<font color="purple"> It wasn't an option so I just put "front to back" but what I do is I look for the table of contents, read the articles that intrest me...and then one day when I'm REALLY bored: read the ones that don't. Unless it's one of mom's fassion magazines, then I just flip arround looking at the pretty pictures </font>

[AAAAA]

The only two magazines I read faithfully are Newsweek and Reader's Digest. I read the same features right off the bat, then look through the contents to find anything else that catches my eye. Once it hits the basket in the bathroom I'll read the rest of the articles front to back.

I know that this has nothing to do with the price of tea in China, but my mom's best friend reads the last 5 pages of a new book before starting at the beginning, what's the fun in that? Anyone else sneak a peek at the ending before reading?

[sunrise]

</font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font>
AAAAA said:
Anyone else sneak a peek at the ending before reading?

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">Sometimes. I rarely read a book in the order it is written. I'll read some of the beginning, then jump ahead a couple of chapter, then jump back, then maybe to the end, then back again. I almost always do this. It bores me to read a book cover to cover, beginning to end. I like that I can read it in whatever order I want. There are no rules to reading books. I like the freedom.

<font color="purple">Hehe, I used to do that all the time, but not anymore. </font>

[AAAAA]

Sunrise, that would be entirely too confusing for me! Even books that are written that way lose me. When I was in HS reading Dune for the first time, I was so confused that I didn't even realize that half the book was missing and the publisher had run a printing with like chapters 5 - 8 doubled. All that switching back and forth between the houses! Maybe that's why I don't like Shakespeare.

I was tempted to read the end of the last Harry Potter book, but my kids kept me honest.

[sunrise]

I write stories, and I also don't write them from start to finish, so maybe that is why I read books that way. I tend to write the beginning of a story first, then the end, then the long middle. I feel like I can't write the story properly unless I know where it is going. The events in the beginning and middle must foreshadow the end, so I need to have the end written fairly early on so I know where the story is headed. if that makes sense....

[AAAAA]

Makes perfect sense when you look at it that way!

Actually, I only read the specific articles or look at the featured pics that interest me. I ignore the rest of the magazine. Sometimes, there is no specific order, but generally, I do go front to back.

[Phoenix1985]

Originally Posted by Rainbowzz

wow - looks like im not as weird as i thought for reading from the back to the front! I wonder why we do that? It just seems better to me..lol.

Hehe, so glad I'm not the only person who does this too lol

[Karissa258]

I flip through it randomly, but one thing I like to do is take out all the reply cards, etc. inside it before reading it, because it makes it easier to read.