Readers

The other half of the act. Reading aloud, reading silently, marginalia, commonplace books, book clubs, the novel-reading panic, audiobooks, Braille and talking books, and what the eye and brain actually do on a page.

Part of Books

89 moments in this segment.

  1. - St. Anthony Reading. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints). Germany. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1519.
  2. - Bookplate: Edmund Poley of Badley. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1707.
  3. - Trissotin Reading to Philaminte, Bélise, and Armande (from act 3, scene 2 of Molière's "Les Femmes Savantes". Drawing in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Drawings). France, 18th century. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, probably c. 1725–1726.
  4. - Zittende, lezende man. Identificatie Titel(s): Zittende, lezende man Objecttype: tekening Objectnummer: RP-T-1920-57 Vervaardiging Vervaardiger: tekenaar: David Pièrre Giottino Humbert de Superville Datering: 1780 - 1849 Fysieke kenmerken: potlood Materiaal: papier potlood Afmetingen: h 137 mm × b 86 mm Onderwerp Wat: lezen Verwerving en rechten Credit line: Schenking van de heer F.G. Waller, Amsterdam Verwerving: schen
  5. - Nakomeling lezend over de historie van de tegenwoordige tijd, 1796 De Nakomelingschap by 't leezen der Histori. Identificatie Titel(s): Nakomeling lezend over de historie van de tegenwoordige tijd, 1796. De Nakomelingschap by 't leezen der Historie van den Tegens woordigen tyd (titel op object) Objecttype: prent boekillustratie spotprent Objectnummer: RP-P-OB-86.611 Catalogusreferentie: FMH 5450-e Atlas van Stolk 5947 Opschriften / Merken: verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228 Omschrijving: Spotpre
  6. - Courtesan Reading a Letter. Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Japanese Art). Japan, Edo period (1615–1868). Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, early 1800s.
  7. - The Kōrin Picture Book. Bound Volume in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Japanese Art). Japan, Edo period (1615–1868). Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1800s.
  8. - Louis-Léopold Boilly - The Reading of the Bulletin of the Grand... - 74-1989 - Saint Louis Art Museum. A painting of people reading.
  9. - Lezende man, zittend aan tafel. Identificatie Titel(s): Lezende man, zittend aan tafel Objecttype: tekening Objectnummer: RP-T-FM-116 Vervaardiging Vervaardiger: tekenaar: Christiaan Julius Lodewijk Portman Datering: 1818 Fysieke kenmerken: rood krijt Materiaal: papier krijt Afmetingen: h 269 mm × b 264 mm Onderwerp Wat: male sex; mansitting figure Verwerving en rechten Credit line: Bruikleen van de gemeente Amsterdam Verwerving
  10. - Brieflezende vrouw, RP-P-OB-29.596. A depiction of reading in art, painting, print or poster.
  11. - Inscription in album- "Daniel Jeanes book 1855". Title: Inscription in album: "Daniel Jeanes book 1855" Abstract/medium: 1 page: graphite; page 31 x 20 cm.
  12. - Krantenlezer. Identificatie Titel(s): Krantenlezer Objecttype: tekening Objectnummer: RP-T-1949-125 Vervaardiging Vervaardiger: tekenaar: Jac van Looij Datering: 1865 - 1930 Fysieke kenmerken: zwart krijt op geruit papier Materiaal: geruit papier krijt Afmetingen: h 111 mm × b 171 mm Onderwerp Wat: lezen Verwerving en rechten Verwerving: aankoop 1949 Copyright: Publiek domein
  13. - Platt Powell Ryder - The Illustrated Newspaper - Google Art Project. A painting of people reading.
  14. - Grigoriy Myasoyedov Reading of the 1861 Manifesto 1873. A painting of people reading.
  15. - Reading. Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Modern European Painting and Sculpture). France, 19th century. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1873.
  16. - Lezend meisje aan tafel. Identificatie Titel(s): Lezend meisje aan tafel Objecttype: prent Objectnummer: RP-P-1904-1635 Opschriften / Merken: verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228 Omschrijving: In haar rechterhand heeft zij een tak. Op tafel staan vazen met bloemen. Vervaardiging Vervaardiger: prentmaker: Jan Mesker (vermeld op object), naar ontwerp van: Jan Mesker (vermeld op object), drukker: Samuel Lankhout &
  17. - Books on the Out-of-Doors LCCN2015646685. A depiction of reading in art, painting, print or poster.
  18. - Books, the ideal gift LCCN2015646684. A depiction of reading in art, painting, print or poster.
  19. - Florence Nightingale, seate, reading. Wellcome L0017561. A depiction of reading in art, painting, print or poster.
  20. - Reading the news (1918) -José Malhoa (1855 - 1933). A painting of people reading.
  21. - Sarah Bernhardt Reclining on a Divan, Reading. Drawing in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Drawings). France, 19th century. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, c. 1885–1890.
  22. - Franz Rumpler Der Brief 1882. A painting of people reading.
  23. - Girl Reading - Robert Frederick Blum. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints). America. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1883.
  24. - Young Woman Reading. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints). France, 19th century. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1896.
  25. - Bookplate: Elizabeth M. Leete. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1898.
  26. - Bookplate: Ward Cameron. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1899.
  27. - A man reading a magazine. A photograph or picture of men reading.
  28. - A Two Early has reading new papers and magazines. A photograph or picture of men reading.
  29. - ErnestHareReadingNewspaper. A photograph or picture of men reading.
  30. - Bookplate: Abbie B. Stone. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1900.
  31. - Bookplate: John W. Lowe. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1901.
  32. - Bookplate: Walter Dutton Baker. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1902.
  33. - Bookplate: Ella Huntting. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1903.
  34. - Bookplate: Elizabeth Huntting. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1903.
  35. - Bookplate: Leonora Elizabeth Phipard. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1903.
  36. - TAFT, SECRETARY. W. AS SEC. READING AT DESK. Title: TAFT, SECRETARY. W. AS SEC. READING AT DESK Abstract/medium: 1 negative: glass; 8 x 10 in. or smaller
  37. - Bookplate: Rudolf R. V. Hoschek. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1905.
  38. - Woman Sitting Reading. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints). Belgium, 20th century. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1905.
  39. - Exlibris de Joaquín V. González. Exibris de Joaquín V. González dibujado por Emilio Coutaret (1863 - 1949) en 1912. Lleva la leyenda Nemo Nec Nihil (Nadie Ni Nada).
  40. - Translating Mahfouz. Translator Denys Johnson-Davies on bringing Arabic literature, including Mahfouz, to English readers.
  41. - The future of the book in a digital age. Panel of publishers and academics on what happens to reading, editing and publishing as print loses its monopoly.
  42. - Reading off a prison sentence in Brazil. Report on the Brazilian programme cutting days from sentences for prisoners who read classic literature and write about it.
  43. - The history of reading and the literate life. Literary scholar Seth Lerer traces how reading practices have changed across centuries.
  44. - Elin Solvang reading. Journalist og informasjonsrådgiver Elin Solvang, Grong, Nord-Trøndelag. Bildet er tatt i forbindelse med Nord-Trøndelag fylkesbiblioteks kampanje "Leseambassadører"
  45. - A new literature prize for African writers. PBS NewsHour on a fiction prize raising the profile and readership of African authors.
  46. - Cause and consequence in reading disability. Guinevere Eden on distinguishing the brain differences that cause dyslexia from those produced by years of reading less.
  47. - Out of silence: the Afghan Women's Writing Project. Readings from a project publishing Afghan women's writing, and on what writing and being read means under restriction.
  48. - The legacy of the Cairo Geniza. A scholarly lecture on the Cairo Geniza, the synagogue storeroom whose roughly 400,000 fragments reopened the social history of the medieval Mediterranean.
  49. - Okadabooks and Nigerian readers. CGTN Africa on a Nigerian e-book platform letting authors bypass traditional publishers and reach readers on phones.
  50. - Recycled Fatimid state documents from the Geniza. A lecture on how official Fatimid chancery documents survive only because their paper was reused for Hebrew writing.
  51. - The boy who invented braille. BBC Ideas on Louis Braille, blinded at three, who by fifteen had adapted a military night-writing code into the six-dot cell system that gave blind readers direct access to text.
  52. - The neuroscience of reading. Maryanne Wolf's conference talk on the reading circuit and the risk of losing slower forms of attention.
  53. - A history of reading together at home. Oxford research seminar on domestic reading aloud, family reading circles and the social forms reading has taken indoors.
  54. - Inside audiobook production. Library staff walk through recording an audio book end to end, from narrator selection to quality control.
  55. - Iran's book club. Al Jazeera on the appetite for Western titles in Iran and the constraints on publishing them.
  56. - Ninety years of talking books. History of the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library, one of the original nineteen regional libraries set up in 1931, and of the NLS system it belongs to.
  57. - Reading versus listening to audiobooks. A review of research comparing comprehension and retention between print reading and audiobook listening.
  58. - How the brain learns to read. Harvard's Nadine Gaab on the brain regions recruited for reading, none of them evolved for it, and how they come to work together.
  59. - Isaac Newton's earliest notebook. The Morgan Library presents Newton's student notebook, from the years before the Principia.
  60. - What reading on screens does to our brains. A BBC Ideas explainer summarising research on how screen reading differs from reading print.
  61. - A reading competition in Kabul. Short report on a book-reading competition held to encourage reading among young Afghans.
  62. - Read a book, get out of jail. FRANCE 24 on Bolivia's Books Behind Bars scheme, which lets prisoners reduce their sentences by reading and reporting on books.
  63. - The history of the talking book. Library of Congress symposium on the origins of the talking book, records cut for blind readers in the 1930s, and its line of descent to the modern audiobook.
  64. - Making books talk. Symposium session on how recorded books are actually produced, from narration and direction to the formats they are distributed on.
  65. - The power of deep reading. Maryanne Wolf on how the reading brain is built rather than inherited, and on what sustained, deep reading requires that skimming does not.
  66. - What speed readers will not tell you. A researcher reviews the evidence on speed reading and the trade-off between rate and comprehension.
  67. - Elizabeth Harris on BookTok and book sales. A New York Times reporter explains how TikTok book recommendations began driving measurable sales for publishers.
  68. - The New York Times names the best books of the century so far. NBC News reports on the newspaper's ranked list of twenty-first-century books and how it was assembled.
  69. - Why read books rather than screens?. A BBC programme discussing research comparing comprehension when reading print and digital text.
  70. - Talking book and braille library services today. Library conference session on how a state talking-book and braille library operates and reaches readers.
  71. - AI-generated audiobooks gain momentum. An authors' association news roundup on AI narration deals between voice firms and audiobook platforms.
  72. - The inaugural annual history of the book lecture. An Institute of English Studies and Warburg Institute lecture inaugurating an annual series on book history.
  73. - Americans are reading fewer books. Does it matter?. A public radio programme examining reading survey data with researchers and what the decline implies.
  74. - Audible gives AI narration to publishers. A commentary on Audible's rollout of AI voice narration and what it means for human audiobook narrators.
  75. - An AI voice narrates a memoir audiobook. ITV News reports on the use of a synthesised voice to narrate an audiobook and the debate it prompted.
  76. - Why reading scores dropped to their worst point in decades. PBS NewsHour interviews an education researcher about the decline in American reading assessment scores.
  77. - Why young men stopped reading fiction. An examination of readership data showing a decline in fiction reading among young men and the publishing explanations offered.
  78. - Penny dreadfuls and Victorian popular reading. An account of the cheap serial fiction sold to Victorian working-class readers and the moral panic about it.
  79. - Why students score lower on digital tests. A cognitive scientist reviews the evidence that reading and testing on screens produces weaker results than paper.
  80. - Why digital reading fails: the cognitive map problem. A cognitive scientist explains the spatial-memory account of why readers retain less from screens.
  81. - A refreshable braille display, demonstrated. Short demonstration of how an electronic braille display renders digital text as raised dots line by line.
  82. - What happened to Book of the Month. An examination of the subscription book club model, its long history and its recent difficulties.
  83. - Panizzi Lectures 2025: plants, politics and print. British Library annual lecture series on books in their elements, this session on print in South Africa.
  84. - Exlibris XB 4831 UB Mannheim. Exlibris für Maurice Guibert; Exlibris für Julia und Julius Willstaedter. Das Bild zeigt zwei unterschiedliche Werke. Das obere Exlibris zeigt den bekannten französischen Maler Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in einer japanischen Karikatur. Basis für das Exlibris ist eine Fotografie des Exlibrisinhabers Maurice Guibert, der Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec so portraitierte. Das Exlibris in blau wurde von einem
  85. - The Book-of-the-Month Club launches. A short history of the 1926 founding of the subscription club that reshaped how Americans chose books.
  86. - The science of reading comprehension. A Harvard Graduate School of Education session with researchers on what is known about how comprehension develops.
  87. - Reader, Come Home as a university pre-read. Princeton on choosing Maryanne Wolf's book about deep reading and digital distraction for its incoming class.
  88. - The rise of the post-literate society. DW News examines evidence that sustained reading is declining and what researchers make of the trend.
  89. - Why fewer Americans read for pleasure. PBS NewsHour examines survey data showing a long decline in reading for pleasure and what may explain it.
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