# What's special about the way you read The SDMB?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-special-about-the-way-you-read-the-sdmb/538653>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 7, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-special-about-the-way-you-read-the-sdmb/538653 "2010-05-07T17:42:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-special-about-the-way-you-read-the-sdmb/538653/21 "2010-05-08T18:41:20Z")

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> [@AHunter3](#):
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> This. And then I open each interesting-looking thread in a _background window_, not reading it at that time, just opening it. Go on to next page of unread posts and so on until I’m at the end of the many pages of unread posts (this is the SDMB, it doesn’t take long to accumulate 16 pages’ worth of unread post threads).
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> THEN I close the “New Posts” window and begin reading.

this is what I meant to say

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