Reader

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

Computing and technology edit

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
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

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

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

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