The Reader was founded in 1997 by Jane Davis and Sarah Coley. In 2007 Philip Davis took over the editorship of the magazine, maintaining its original aim 'to encourage readers to extend their horizons'.
'The Reader is not academic, it is not arty, it is not preachy, it is not exclusive. It is a magazine concerned with the direct effect of books on readers, with the human content and purpose of literature ... [The Reader] is THE magazine for reading groups and for all those committed to the relation of literature to life, without pretentiousness'.
Source: The Reader website, http://magazine.thereader.org.uk/
Sighted: 13/11/2008