An e-mailer:

OK, Kathryn, here’s your female audience!
When I read about the wife that complained of her husband’s NRODT’s sitting idly while he was away on business, I was confused.
You see, at our home, we “fight” for first rights to the mag when it comes in. It starts with my husband looking at the cover of the last issue and lamenting “haven’t we gotten the latest one yet?” The reason that he would ask this was twofold, one, because yes, the mail is slow and two, because it isn’t uncommon for me to hide the latest NRODT from him. If I didn’t, I would resentfully watch him come home from work, grab it and disappear into the “boy’s room” for at least half an hour. Then once the kids were tucked in, I knew it would be a race to see who got it for nighttime reading first. So I started subterfuge. I would “hide” the mag until I got through at least a few of the articles after we had gotten it for a day or two. Then I would put it innocently on the stack of mail coming in the next day. (With apologies to Mr. Kurtz, whom I would hate to think that I carried that subterfuge out in any other areas of my happy marriage!)
We both love our NRO, and now all we’ll have to fight over is who gets the laptop first!
Thanks for going digital! Now I can bring down my issues of NRODT to Bowdoin College, they are in sore need of them there!