I've often wondered this myself but never really had a need to do so. Anyway, suppose you would like to download a thread and save the contents, maybe use the text to gather a lengthy reply while offline. I couldn't figure out how to do so and my searches lead me to believe it really wasn't an option.

I added some code that should allow anyone to do so now. Follow these easy steps to download an entire thread as an easy to read text file.

1- Go to the thread you want to save
2- At the top of the first post, click on where it says "Thread Tools" drop down arrow
3- You should now see an option that says "Download this thread"
4- This should download the entire thread as a text file and prompt you where you would like to save

Please let me know if anyone has any problems or questions.