Reader

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