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I like to keep a bookmark of my own posts and when I click on it, the login page appears and after logging in I'm redirected to my own posts.
A similar behavior should exist in the search of unreads...
If - when not logged in - you hit on search.php?search_id=unreadposts you get results (perhaps of the Anonymous user?)
This does not really make sense. Since unreads for each user are stored in the db I believe it should check whether the user is logged in, if not redirect to the login screen and after that to the proper results...
As a person who's been using the unread feature since my day one with olympus (thanks to View or mark unread posts) I'm just trying to offer my 2c here in order to make this new feature more usable.What do you think?

Actually, if you click the link to view unread posts being guest, you'll be taken to the "View new posts" page instead of "View unread posts" one.
"View new posts" ability is not restricted for guests.

I think you should not be able to click it at all.
And you should put a (trigger_error with a) redirect. as 2 different pages with the same result seem really odd to search engines and stuff like that.

Well, the link is not visible for guests, but you always will be able to "click" it (having bookmark, entering it into the browser address bar, etc), this can't be changed at all

What about a login box?

Login box could be implemented for the time being since for now the feature doesn't support unread posts viewing for cookie-based tracking type (and hence for guests too).
But if we decide it to support cookie-based tracking, login box will became redundant.

Any link that is not normally visible to guests should redirect to a login page if accessed outside of the GUI. It should not return a page inconsistent with it's behavior if accessed properly when logged in.