I don't know why I do, but I do

[HeyWayne]

Read magazines from back to front that is.

I don't mean read the text backwards, but I start at the back of a magazine and work my way to the front.

Anyone else backward like me?

[Brengirl]

Always presuming that the front is what attracted you to it in the first place I guess you are sort of guy that likes to leave the best till last.

[Pumpkin Becki]

I start (with the best of intentions) at the beginning, get about half way through, get bored, and turn to the back and work my way back towards the middle until I've read it all. Now that's really strange!!

[Flummery]

I suspect it's to do with being right or left handed. It's easier to flick from back to front if you're right handed (I find - so yes, I do it too!)

[OllieMartin]

I suspect it's to do with being right or left handed. It's easier to flick from back to front if you're right handed (I find - so yes, I do it too!)

Just what I was going to say.

I'll read from front to back if it's a magazine i'm interested in.
But if I'm stranded in a waiting room with a choice of chlamydia leaflets or a 2004 Heat magazine, i'll probably flick through the Heat magazine from back to front before resorting to counting the LEDs on the electronic display board.

[ginger ninger]

Yup me too, I always look from back to front, Mag's, Argos Catalogues even my seed catalogues, I think the only think a read from the front are Books, Can't really read them any other way.

[piskieinboots]

I read Garden News from back first cos I love Phil McCann

[Two_Sheds]

I think the meatier or more interesting sections are at the back, while the shorter quick-to-read articles are at the front.

I'm a back-to-fronter too

[Alison]

I thought it was from newspaper reading in that a lot of people want to read the sports results before the depressing news.

[Eco-Chic]

I thought it was from newspaper reading in that a lot of people want to read the sports results before the depressing news.

Not in my case. Never read the sport.

Thinking on, it is only magazines that I read backwards. I think Flummery's r/h theory is right. I wonder if the texture of the paper has anything to do with it too?

[Bren In Pots]

I read magazines from the back as well, the best articles always seem to be found there.

[basketcase]

I think Flummery's r/h theory is right. I wonder if the texture of the paper has anything to do with it too?

But I'm a back-to-fronter too - and I'm strongly LH!

Good theory, though

[scarey55]

I'm like Ollie, if I am flicking through a magazine - in a doctor's waiting room or somewhere like that, I go from back to front but if I want to really read it, I have to have it on a table and turn the pages from front to back.
Having said that, it's all pretty academic at the moment. Living here, it doesn't matter if I read it back to front, upside down or whatever, I still can't understand it

[HeyWayne]

Yup me too, I always look from back to front, Mag's, Argos Catalogues even my seed catalogues, I think the only think a read from the front are Books, Can't really read them any other way.

Snap

I thought it was from newspaper reading in that a lot of people want to read the sports results before the depressing news.

Nah, I never read the sport section.

[OllieMartin]

I thought it was from newspaper reading in that a lot of people want to read the sports results before the depressing news.

People love reading depressing news. When you're depressed you buy things to cheer yourself up, why do you think there's so much advertising in newspapers?