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I was talking to a co-worker of mine and we both came to agree that we tend to flip through a magazine or publication backwards. From the back cover to the front cover. For some reason we both found it easier to flip through and skim the magazine that way.

So, I had this idea that there should be a magazine out there printed that way on purpose. The cover would be on both sides, and a table of contents would be available from both ends as well. But all of the content and stories would go from the "back" to the "front".

Does anyone else on the boards flip through magazines this way? and what do you think of the idea of having a magazine built to read that way?

Just a bortwein random thought of the month.

Thanks

If you had a magazine like that, you'd find yourself flipping from front to back. I suspect that your habit comes from more than a preference for right-to-left page-flipping and is really more like a proofreader's technique of reading text backwards in order to concentrate on spelling errors-- the things of interest are more readily apparent and you have more "control" over the content that way than if you're following the flow suggested by the editors of the magazine.

Plus there's usually some nice short column in the back of a magazine, and you skip the tons of ads at the front, and you can skim the longer articles that got separated and had their remainders put in the back...

So a magazine printed back-to-front would totally mess that all up. Or just reverse it.

I'm thinking manga probably has this covered already???

j$

We have a few Japanese guys that work here seasonally, and they have these slightly smutty magazines, like a Japanese "Details" or "Stuff" .. and they are bound and set up back to front.

So, they are out there.

I flip through magazines randomly until I find an interesting article. Then just as I'm getting into that interesting article, the damn doctor/dentist/hair stylist/whatever calls my name. Frustrating.

japanese books and magazines are back to front, from our perspective.

i also flip from the back. at some point i read an explanation of why some people do this but i don't remember. it's not like i do it with my dominant hand, i'm right-handed.
-bill

fluffy wrote:Ithe damn doctor/dentist/hair stylist/whatever calls my name.

Christ, working four jobs. I knew NY was expensive, but ... ?

bill wrote:i also flip from the back. at some point i read an explanation of why some people do this but i don't remember. it's not like i do it with my dominant hand, i'm right-handed.

must ... resist ... line ... fed ... to ... me ... on ... plate ......

j$

j$ wrote:

fluffy wrote:Ithe damn doctor/dentist/hair stylist/whatever calls my name.

Christ, working four jobs. I knew NY was expensive, but ... ? :)

Yeah, he's also a gynecologist, psychiatrist, and subway lineman. (The last one is so that he gets health insurance.)

fluffy wrote:Yeah, he's also a gynecologist, psychiatrist, and subway lineman.

Man, so he spends all day dealing with pussies, nuts and assholes. (Thank you, I'll be here all the week.)

I figured I went back to front because I'm left-handed.

Leaf wrote:We have a few Japanese guys that work here seasonally, and they have these slightly smutty magazines, like a Japanese "Details" or "Stuff" .. and they are bound and set up back to front.

So, they are out there.

And then there are all those hebrew magazines.

hmmm... never flipped back to front... and i'm left handed... so i guess i don't really see it...
but tis interesting...

Manga only. I follow cultural norms so as to stand out less than I already do.

fluffy wrote:the damn doctor/dentist/hair stylist/whatever calls my name.

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Nevermind.

Jim of Seattle said exactly what I was gonna say. I figured it's a southpaw tendency.

SoberIRL, I'm sure we're all just DYING to hear whatever creative and original insult you were about to spew forth.

i have a tendency to do this, and am also left-handed.

The Sober Irishman wrote:hair stylist

See, this is why I side with hotpiinktears.

john m wrote:Manga only. I follow cultural norms so as to stand out less than I already do.

Actually, you follow cultural norms because you live in Ohio. You don't have a choice!

Ha, ha, ha.

I find it a little sad that you devote so much time to making fun of Ohio.

john m wrote:I find it a little sad that you devote so much time to making fun of Ohio.

Well, it's not like I spend a lot of it planning. It's usually sufficient just to go "Ha ha, Ohio! Man, you're a boring state! You should feel bad about being so boring!" and call it a wrap.

I saw the title and thought this was a thread about wiping your ass.