reader

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
reader/ˈriːdə(r)/

▶noun

• 1 a person who reads.

• 2 a person who reports to a publisher on the merits of manuscripts submitted for publication.

• 3 (Reader) Brit. a university lecturer of the highest grade below professor.

• 4 short for lay reader.

• 5 a book containing extracts of a text or texts for teaching purposes.

• 6 a device that produces on a screen a readable image from a microfiche or microfilm.

– derivatives
readerly adjective.