How to say "reader" in Japanese

• 読者どくしゃJLPT N1approx.Common
  nounA person who reads a publication or a writer's work; the reader as part of an audience, as in a magazine with many readers or a novelist's readership.
  あの本ほんの読者どくしゃたちは自分じぶんのことをインテリだと思おもっている。↗

  The readers of that book think themselves sophisticated.
• 読み手よみてCommon
  nounThe person doing the reading, with a nuance of the receiving or interpreting side of written communication; natural when discussing how a reader understands or responds to a text.
• 読本とくほんCommon
  nounNot a person but a book: a 'reader' in the sense of a reading textbook or instructional volume, also a guidebook or manual. For a person who reads, use 読者 or 読み手 instead.

Choose 読者 for a reader of books or publications, 「読み手」 for the person actively reading or interpreting a text, and 読本 only when 'reader' means a book — a reading textbook or manual, never a person.

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• 読者どくしゃreader
• 読み手よみてreader (person)
• 読本とくほんreading-book
• リーダーreader (textbook)
• 閲覧者えつらんしゃreader
• 読手どくしゅreader (in competitive karuta)
• 愛読者あいどくしゃsubscriber
• 購読者こうどくしゃsubscriber
• 読み取り機よみとりき(computer) reader
• カードリーダーcard reader (diviner)