ya i hate reading in flash too, but as an example....you could use it at a announcements dilly. where important announcements can be displayed in the flash box on every page or so. and it wouldn't display the whole post, but say just the subject line. it isn't really that important at all here, i just want to learn how to do it, so i can use it in other situations.
in another situation it could be good, cause you could alow others to link to that flash file and they could display the top posters or whatever on there website.