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

Computing and technology

• Adobe Reader (now Adobe Acrobat), a PDF reader
• Bible Reader for Palm, a discontinued PDA application
• A card reader, for extracting data from various forms of card-shaped media
• An e-reader, a device or software for viewing e-books
  • Amazon Kindle
  • Microsoft Reader
  • Sony Reader
• Foxit Reader, a multilingual PDF tool
• Google Reader, a discontinued web app for handling RSS/Atom feeds
• K-NFB Reader, a handheld electronic reading device for the blind
• Lisp reader, the parser function in the Lisp programming language
• Microsoft Fingerprint Reader
• Newsreader (Usenet), for reading newsgroup posts
• Nintendo e-Reader, a device to read paper card media for the Game Boy Advance
• Reader, an off-line content viewing feature of Apple's Safari web browser
• Screen reader, a software application that attempts to identify and interpret what is being displayed on the screen

Education and literature

• Basal reader, a book used to teach reading and associated skills to schoolchildren
  • McGuffey Readers, a well-known early series of such books
• Anthology, a book of selections of writing, usually by many authors
  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, a series of books containing trivia and short essays on miscellaneous topics
• Reader-response criticism, a literary theory, primarily German and American
• The Reader, a 1995 novel by Bernhard Schlink

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 defunct weekly paper
• 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 (formerly My Weekly Reader), an educational magazine for children
• The Reader (newspaper), a weekly in Omaha, Nebraska
• Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, a reference guide to articles in magazines and journals

Occupations

• A publisher's reader, also called a first reader
• Reader (liturgy), a person charged with reading scripture in church
• Reader (Christian Science Church) (also First Reader or Second Reader), a person who conducts services in a Christian Science church
• Reader (Anglican Church)
• Reader (academic rank), in British education the position between senior (or principal) lecturer and professor
• Reader (Inns of Court), a senior barrister of the Inns of Court in London elected to deliver lectures on a particular legal topic
• Reader, a practitioner of cartomancy, fortune-telling using a deck of cards

Places

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

Other uses

• The Reader (2008 film), based on the novel
• Plate reader (or microplate reader), a laboratory instrument
• "Readers", a slang term for reading glasses
• Readers, a deck of marked cards
• Readers, a brand of Cricket equipment

See also

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

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