Reader

Reader can mean a person who is reading a text, or a basal reader, a book used to teach reading. It may also refer to:

The Reader

Persons who read

• A publisher's reader, also called a first reader
• Historically, a person who entertained cigar factory workers by reading books or newspapers aloud, also known as a lector; see cigar manufacture
• Reader (liturgy), someone charged with reading Scripture in church (also called a Lector)
• Reader (Christian Science Church), a person who conducts services in a Christian Science church, also called a First Reader or Second Reader
• Reader (Anglican Church)
• Reader (academic rank), the British academic rank between senior (or principal) lecturer and professor
• Reader (Inns of Court), originally a senior barrister of the Inns of Court in London who was elected to deliver a lecture or series of lectures on a particular legal topic

Places

• Reader, Arkansas
  • Reader Railroad, a tourist railroad operating in Arkansas
• Reader, Illinois
• Reader, West Virginia

Newspapers and magazines

• Chicago Reader, a newsweekly
• Duzhe, (translated Reader(s)), a Chinese magazine
• High Plains Reader, an independent weekly tabloid
• Los Angeles Reader, a weekly paper, now defunct
• The Reader (magazine), a literary quarterly published by the University of Liverpool
• San Diego Reader, a weekly newspaper in San Diego, California
• Utne Reader, a periodical
• Weekly Reader, an educational magazine for children
• The Reader (newspaper), a weekly newspaper in Omaha, Nebraska

Computing and technology

• Adobe Reader (now Adobe Acrobat), a PDF reader
• Bible Reader for Palm (now Palm Bible Plus)
• Card reader for Access Control
• Foxit Reader, a multilingual PDF reader
• Google Reader, a Web-based aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds online or offline
• K-NFB Reader, a handheld electronic reading device for the blind
• Lisp reader, the parser for Lisp
• Microsoft Reader, a Microsoft program for the reading of e-books
• Microsoft Fingerprint Reader, a device that was produced by Microsoft
• Newsreader (Usenet), for reading newsgroup posts
• Nintendo e-Reader, for the Game Boy Advance
• Reader, an element of Apple's web browser Safari
• Screen reader, a software application that attempts to identify and interpret what is being displayed on the screen
• Sony Reader, a line of e-book readers manufactured by Sony

Other

• Reader-response criticism, a primarily German and American literary theory
• The Reader, a 1995 novel by Bernhard Schlink
• The Reader (2008 film), 2008 movie based on this novel
• A basal reader, a textbook used in reading education:
  • McGuffey Readers, examples of these
• An anthology: a book of different pieces of writing, often by many authors, for example:
  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, a series of books containing trivia and short essays on miscellaneous topics, ostensibly for reading in the bathroom
• Plate reader (or microplate reader), a laboratory instrument
• Readers, a slang term for reading glasses

See also

• Reader (surname)
• Reeder (disambiguation)
• The Reader (disambiguation)