A reader is a person who reads. It may also refer to:

Computing and technology

Adobe Reader Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and Web services developed by Adobe Inc. to view, create, manipulate, print and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The family comprises Acrobat Reader (formerly Reader), Acrobat (forme ...

(now Adobe Acrobat), a PDF reader * Bible Reader for Palm, a discontinued PDA application * A

card reader A card reader is a data input device that reads data from a card-shaped storage medium. The first were punched card readers, which read the paper or cardboard punched cards that were used during the first several decades of the computer industry ...

, for extracting data from various forms of card-shaped media * An

e-reader An e-reader, also called an e-book reader or e-book device, is a mobile electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital e-books and periodicals. Any device that can display text on a screen may act as an e-read ...

, a device or software for viewing e-books **

Amazon Kindle Amazon Kindle is a series of e-readers designed and marketed by Amazon. Amazon Kindle devices enable users to browse, buy, download, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines and other digital media via wireless networking to the Kindle Store. ...

Microsoft Reader Microsoft Reader is a discontinued Microsoft application for reading e-books, first released in August 2000, that used its own .LIT format. It was available for Windows computers and Pocket PC PDAs. The name was also used later for an unrelated a ...

Sony Reader The Sony Reader was a line of e-book readers manufactured by Sony, who produced the first commercial E Ink e-reader with the Sony Librie in 2004. It used an electronic paper display developed by E Ink Corporation, was viewable in direct sunlight, ...

Foxit Reader Foxit PDF Reader (formerly Foxit Reader) is a multilingual freemium PDF (Portable Document Format) tool that can create, view, edit, digitally sign, and print PDF files. Foxit Reader is developed by Fuzhou, China-based Foxit Software. Early ver ...

, a multilingual PDF tool *

Google Reader Google Reader was an RSS/Atom feed aggregator operated by Google. It was created in early 2005 by Google engineer Chris Wetherell and launched on October 7, 2005, through Google Labs. Google Reader grew in popularity to support a number of progra ...

, a discontinued web app for handling RSS/Atom feeds *

K-NFB Reader The K-NFB Reader (an acronym for Kurzweil — National Federation of the Blind Reader) is a handheld electronic reading device for the blind. It was developed in a partnership between Ray Kurzweil and National Federation of the Blind. The original ...

, a handheld electronic reading device for the blind *

Lisp reader In the programming language Lisp, the reader or read function is the parser which converts the textual form of Lisp objects to the corresponding internal object structure. In the original Lisp, S-expressions consisted only of symbols, integers, a ...

, the parser function in the Lisp programming language * Microsoft Fingerprint Reader *

Newsreader (Usenet) A newsreader is an application program that reads articles on Usenet distributed throughout newsgroups. Newsreaders act as clients which connect to a news server, via the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), to download articles and post new art ...

, for reading newsgroup posts *

Nintendo e-Reader The Nintendo e-Reader, stylized as ereader, commonly abbreviated as e-Reader, known in Japan as the is an add-on manufactured by Nintendo for its Game Boy Advance handheld video game console. It was released in Japan in December 2001, with a N ...

, a device to read paper card media for the Game Boy Advance * Reader, an off-line content viewing feature of Apple's

Safari A safari (; ) is an overland journey to observe wild animals, especially in eastern or southern Africa. The so-called "Big Five" game animals of Africa – lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, and Cape buffalo – particularly form an importa ...

web browser *

Screen reader A screen reader is a form of assistive technology (AT) that renders text and image content as speech or braille output. Screen readers are essential to people who are blindness, blind, and are useful to people who are visual impairment, visually ...

, a software application that attempts to identify and interpret what is being displayed on the screen

Education and literature

Basal reader Basal readers are textbooks used to teach reading and associated skills to schoolchildren. Commonly called "reading books" or "readers" they are usually published as anthologies that combine previously published short stories, excerpts of longe ...

, a book used to teach reading and associated skills to schoolchildren **

McGuffey Readers The Eclectic Readers (commonly, but informally known as the McGuffey Readers) were a series of graded reader, graded primer (textbook), primers for grade levels 1–6. They were widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th centur ...

, a well-known early series of such books *

Anthology In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs or excerpts by different authors. In genre fiction, the term ''anthology'' typically categ ...

, a book of selections of writing, usually by many authors **''

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader ''Uncle John's Bathroom Readers'' are a series of books containing trivia and short essays on miscellaneous topics, ostensibly for reading in the bathroom. The books are credited to the Bathroom Readers' Institute, though Uncle John is a real pers ...

'', a series of books containing trivia and short essays on miscellaneous topics *

Reader-response criticism Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience An audience is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature (in which they are called "readers"), theatre ...

, a literary theory, primarily German and American *''

The Reader ''The Reader'' (german: Der Vorleser) is a novel by German law professor and judge Bernhard Schlink, published in Germany in 1995 and in the United States in 1997. The story is a parable, dealing with the difficulties post-war German generations ...

'', a 1995 novel by Bernhard Schlink

Newspapers and magazines

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Chicago Reader The ''Chicago Reader'', or ''Reader'' (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative weekly newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater. It was founded by a ...

'', a newsweekly *''

Duzhe ''Duzhe'' () is a bimonthly Chinese general interest magazine. It is among the most widely circulated and the leading magazines in the People's Republic of China. History and profile ''Duzhe'' was first published in Lanzhou in March 1981. The maga ...

'', (translated ''Reader(s)''), a Chinese magazine *''

High Plains Reader The ''High Plains Reader'' is an alternative newspaper serving the Fargo metropolitan area, with an estimated readership of 20,000 to 30,000 weekly between print and online readers. The tabloid was founded in 1994 by Ian Swanson, Peter Ryan, and ...

'', an independent weekly tabloid *''

Los Angeles Reader ''Los Angeles Reader'' was a weekly paper established in 1978 and distributed in Los Angeles, United States. It followed the format of the (still-active) ''Chicago Reader''. The paper was known for having lengthy, thoughtful reviews of movies, p ...

'', a defunct weekly paper * ''The Reader'' (magazine), a literary quarterly published by the University of Liverpool * ''

San Diego Reader The ''San Diego Reader'' is an alternative press newspaper in the county of San Diego San Diego ( , ; ) is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a ...

'', a weekly newspaper in San Diego, California *''

Utne Reader ''Utne Reader'' (also known as ''Utne'') ( ) is a digital digest that collects and reprints articles on politics, culture, and the environment, generally from alternative media sources including journals, newsletters, weeklies, zines, music, and ...

'', a periodical *''

Weekly Reader ''Weekly Reader'' was a weekly educational classroom magazine designed for children. It began in 1928 as ''My Weekly Reader''. Editions covered curriculum themes in the younger grade levels and news-based, current events and curriculum themed-i ...

'' (formerly ''My Weekly Reader''), an educational magazine for children * ''The Reader'' (newspaper), a weekly in Omaha, Nebraska *''

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature ''The Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature'' is a reference guide to recently published articles in periodical magazines and scholarly journals, organized by article subject. ''The Readers' Guide'' has been published regularly since 1901 by ...

'', a reference guide to articles in magazines and journals

Occupations

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publisher's reader A publisher's reader or first reader is a person paid by a publisher or book sales club to read manuscripts from the slush pile In publishing, a slush pile is a set of unsolicited query letters or manuscripts that have either been directly sent ...

, also called a first reader *

Reader (liturgy) In some Christian denominations, a reader or lector is the person responsible for reading aloud excerpts of scripture at a liturgy. In early Christian times the reader was of particular value due to the rarity of literacy. Catholic Church In ...

, a person charged with reading scripture in church *

Reader (Christian Science Church) A Reader in a Christian Science church is a member of the congregation who has been elected to serve in one of two positions responsible for church services. Each week's sermon in Christian Science churches is outlined in the ''Christian Science Qu ...

(also First Reader or Second Reader), a person who conducts services in a Christian Science church *

Reader (Anglican Church) In Anglicanism, a licensed lay minister (LLM) or lay reader (in some jurisdictions simply reader) is a person authorised by a bishop to lead certain services of worship (or parts of the service), to preach and to carry out pastoral and teaching f ...

Reader (academic rank) The title of reader in the United Kingdom and some universities in the Commonwealth of Nations, for example India, Australia and New Zealand, denotes an appointment for a senior academic with a distinguished international reputation in research or ...

, in British education the position between senior (or principal) lecturer and professor *

Reader (Inns of Court) A reader in one of the Inns of Court in London was originally a senior barrister of the Inn who was elected to deliver a lecture or series of lectures on a particular legal topic. Two readers (known as Lent and Autumn Readers) would be elected annu ...

, a senior barrister of the Inns of Court in London elected to deliver lectures on a particular legal topic *Reader, a practitioner of

cartomancy Cartomancy is fortune-telling or divination using a deck of cards. Forms of cartomancy appeared soon after playing cards were first introduced into Europe in the 14th century. Huson, Paul (2004). ''Mystical Origins of the Tarot: From Ancient R ...

, fortune-telling using a deck of cards

Places

Reader, Arkansas Reader is an unincorporated area, unincorporated census-designated place in Nevada County, Arkansas, Nevada and Ouachita County, Arkansas, Ouachita counties in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the United States Census, 2010, 2010 census, its popul ...

Reader Railroad The Reader Railroad was a tourist-only railroad operating in Hot Springs, Arkansas from 1973 to 1991. As a common carrier prior to May 1973, it was the last all steam locomotive-powered, mixed train railroad operating in North America. It opera ...

, a tourist railroad * Reader, Illinois * Reader, West Virginia

Other uses

* ''The Reader'' (2008 film), based on the novel *

Plate reader Plate readers, also known as microplate readers or microplate photometers, are instruments which are used to detect biological, chemical or physical events of samples in microtiter plates. They are widely used in research, drug discovery, bioass ...

(or microplate reader), a laboratory instrument *"Readers", a slang term for

reading glasses A corrective lens is a lens (i.e. a transmissive optical device) that is typically worn in front of the eye to improve daily vision. The most common use is to treat refractive errors: myopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism, and presbyopia. Glasse ...