Our last discussion—about book promotion—ended with the post on June 29th… 
And, the first thing I feel I should say about this new conversation is that I suspect there are just as many different kinds of readers as there are, and have been, and will be human beings…
All humans have a unique personality and soul; so, shouldn’t each one be a unique reader…?
Perhaps…
Though…
We seem to be able to classify humans in many other categories without needing a different category for each human…
So, John and Sue both look the same, to most folks, when they shoot a basketball—they have the “same” shooting style—they’re in the same category, right?
If not, we’d loose a valuable way of ordering things…
And, even if John and Sue can be put in the same category, we can still notice subtle differences in their shooting styles; yet, we can generally agree they’re in the same category; though, they’re in different subdivisions of that category…
Perhaps it works the same way with types of readers; but, with more possibility of varying subdivisions…?
If there’s a scholar of types of readers out there, please prove me wrong in the comments :-)
I just glanced at Google and there are separate articles on the 7, 8, 9, 10, and 13 different types of readers…
But, even though I encourage all of you to create as many kinds of readers as you want (and, talk about them in the comments...), I’ll share the 9 Types of Readers You Definitely Know, to help you warm up your own particular Differentiation Function…
By the way, the words “You Definitely Know” could well be a come on to get clicks…
Check out that last link to read descriptions of these 9 types:
The “Weekend Warrior” Reader
The Die-Hard “MUST READ EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING” Reader
The Obsessive Author-Specific Bibliophile
The Tentative Reader
The Intellect
The Snobby Reader
The “Goes to Book Club for Wine and Conversation” Reader
The Shy Reader
The Lifelong Book Lover
And, as a partial proof of my earlier contention that there are an infinite number of categories, you could profitably pair-up any of those 9 types and create yet more valid varieties of readers…
How about the Snobby/Tentative type…
So…
If enough folks add their comments to this conversation, we just might be able to create our own listing of types of readers, eh?
Finally, a reminder that you can always leave a comment that express your desire for new topics to discuss (in the realms of Reading, Writing, and Publishing)…
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As far as I am concerned there is only one type of reader – a human being who picks up a book, trains their eyes on the page, recognises the marks on the page as letters, which make up words, which they miraculously understand – this miracle is probably due the attention of a good teacher who taught the lucky reader how to decipher these mysterious marks in elementary school. A person who does not do this is a non-reader and they need the help of a good and caring teacher also :-)
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Whoa, Jane! Amazing comment!!
And, thank you for letting the conversation continue :-)
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