Reader

• a reader: a person who is reading a text.
• A family name:
• Colin Reader, English geologist
• Eddi Reader, Scottish singer
• Francis Reader (born 1965) , Scottish musician
• Ralph Reader (1903-1982), British director and producer, famous for originating the Gang Show in Scouting
• Ted Reader, a well renowned Canadian chef

• A person whose job or role is to 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

• A place:
• Reader, Arkansas
• Reader, Illinois
• Reader, West Virginia

• Various newspapers and magazines, including:
• The Chicago Reader, a newsweekly
• Los Angeles Reader, a weekly paper, now defunct
• High Plains Reader, an independent weekly tabloid
• The Reader (Omaha weekly), an alternative weekly newspaper in Omaha, Nebraska
• The Reader (magazine), a literary quarterly published by the University of Liverpool
• The San Diego Reader, a weekly newspaper in San Diego, California
• The Weekly Reader, an educational magazine for children
• Utne Reader, a periodical

• In computing/technology, devices or programs such as:
• Adobe Reader
• Google Reader
• Microsoft Reader
• Sony Reader
• The e-Reader, by Nintendo
• Bible Reader for Palm
• screen reader

Other meanings:

• Reader-response criticism, a primarily German and American literary theory
• The Reader, a novel by Bernhard Schlink
• 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
• Plate reader (or microplate reader), a laboratory instrument