The rows always read the same forward and backward.
Reading backward on the contents page of Volume 2, you need at least several decades before you feel safe with your own conjectures.
It doesn't read backward, but you get the picture.
Because the book could also be read backward, there was the sense of constant two-way traffic flowing between our world and multiple counterparts.
Even if read backward it will do it.
That is (as I understand it), when the avant-garde composer's music is read backward.
In fact, Burckhardt sounds like Grote read upside down or backward.
"I read backward and in reverse order," he said.
It was the boy, however, who noticed that one of the charts read backward, and excitedly told his father.
He reversed the leads, so it wOuld read backward.