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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
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