# Reader

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For the essay on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Reader.

A **reader** is a person who [reads](/source/Reading). It may also refer to:

## Computing and technology

- [Adobe Reader](/source/Adobe_Reader) (now Adobe Acrobat), a PDF reader
- [Bible Reader for Palm](/source/Bible_Reader_for_Palm), a discontinued PDA application
- A [card reader](/source/Card_reader), for extracting data from various forms of card-shaped media
- An [e-reader](/source/E-reader), a device or software for viewing e-books - [Amazon Kindle](/source/Amazon_Kindle) - [Microsoft Reader](/source/Microsoft_Reader) - [Sony Reader](/source/Sony_Reader)
- [Foxit Reader](/source/Foxit_Reader), a multilingual PDF tool
- [Google Reader](/source/Google_Reader), a discontinued web app for handling RSS/Atom feeds
- [K-NFB Reader](/source/K-NFB_Reader), a handheld electronic reading device for the blind
- [Lisp reader](/source/Lisp_reader), the parser function in the Lisp programming language
- [Microsoft Fingerprint Reader](/source/Microsoft_Fingerprint_Reader)
- [Newsreader (Usenet)](/source/Newsreader_(Usenet)), for reading newsgroup posts
- [Nintendo e-Reader](/source/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](/source/Safari_(web_browser)) web browser
- [Screen reader](/source/Screen_reader), a software application that attempts to identify and interpret what is being displayed on the screen

## Education and literature

- [Basal reader](/source/Basal_reader), a book used to teach reading and associated skills to schoolchildren - [McGuffey Readers](/source/McGuffey_Readers), a well-known early series of such books
- [Anthology](/source/Anthology), a book of selections of writing, usually by many authors - *[Uncle John's Bathroom Reader](/source/Uncle_John's_Bathroom_Reader)*, a series of books containing trivia and short essays on miscellaneous topics
- [Reader-response criticism](/source/Reader-response_criticism), a literary theory, primarily German and American
- *[The Reader](/source/The_Reader)*, a 1995 novel by Bernhard Schlink

## Newspapers and magazines

- *[Chicago Reader](/source/Chicago_Reader)*, a newsweekly
- *[Duzhe](/source/Duzhe)*, (translated *Reader(s)*), a Chinese magazine
- *[High Plains Reader](/source/High_Plains_Reader)*, an independent weekly tabloid
- *[Los Angeles Reader](/source/Los_Angeles_Reader)*, a defunct weekly paper
- [*The Reader* (magazine)](/source/The_Reader_(magazine)), a literary quarterly published by the University of Liverpool
- *[San Diego Reader](/source/San_Diego_Reader)*, a weekly newspaper in San Diego, California
- *[Utne Reader](/source/Utne_Reader)*, a periodical
- *[Weekly Reader](/source/Weekly_Reader)* (formerly *My Weekly Reader*), an educational magazine for children
- [*The Reader* (newspaper)](/source/The_Reader_(newspaper)), a weekly in Omaha, Nebraska
- *[Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature](/source/Readers'_Guide_to_Periodical_Literature)*, a reference guide to articles in magazines and journals

## Occupations

- A [publisher's reader](/source/Publisher's_reader), also called a first reader
- [Reader (liturgy)](/source/Reader_(liturgy)), a person charged with reading scripture in church
- [Reader (Christian Science Church)](/source/Reader_(Christian_Science_Church)) (also First Reader or Second Reader), a person who conducts services in a Christian Science church
- [Reader (Anglican Church)](/source/Reader_(Anglican_Church))
- [Reader (academic rank)](/source/Reader_(academic_rank)), in British education the position between senior (or principal) lecturer and professor
- [Reader (Inns of Court)](/source/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](/source/Cartomancy), fortune-telling using a deck of cards

## Places

- [Reader, Arkansas](/source/Reader,_Arkansas) - [Reader Railroad](/source/Reader_Railroad), a tourist railroad
- [Reader, Illinois](/source/Reader,_Illinois)
- [Reader, West Virginia](/source/Reader,_West_Virginia)

## Other uses

- [*The Reader* (2008 film)](/source/The_Reader_(2008_film)), based on the novel
- [Plate reader](/source/Plate_reader) (or microplate reader), a laboratory instrument
- "Readers", a slang term for [reading glasses](/source/Reading_glasses)
- Readers, a deck of [marked cards](/source/Marked_card)

## See also

- [Reader (surname)](/source/Reader_(surname))
- [Reeder (disambiguation)](/source/Reeder_(disambiguation))
- [The Reader (disambiguation)](/source/The_Reader_(disambiguation))

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