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• The Audiences of 5 Magazines: Size, Characteristics, Possessions, Cost Analysis: Newsweek, Time, U. S. News and World Report, Life, The Saturday Evening Post (New York, Newsweek, c1962), by Audits & Surveys (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• How We Read: Tales, Fury, Nothing, Sound (Earth: Punctum Books, c2019), ed. by Kaitlin Heller and Suzanne Conklin Akbari (PDF with commentary at Punctum Books)
• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at Ohio State)
• Reading Digital Fiction: Narrative, Cognition, Mediality (New York: Routledge, c2024), by Alice Bell and Astrid Ensslin (multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com)
• All the Books of My Life (c1956), by Sheila Kaye-Smith (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Books and You (book version, c1940), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Books and Bookmen, by Ian Maclaren (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Books and Culture (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, c1896), by Hamilton Wright Mabie
  • HTML at Elegant Ebooks
  • Gutenberg text
  • searchable page images at Google
• Books and Reading: or, What Books Shall I Read and How Shall I Read Them?, by Noah Porter (page images at MOA)
• Feeding the Mind (London: Chatto and Windus, 1907), by Lewis Carroll, contrib. by William Henry Draper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• On Reading: An Essay (New York: Duffield and Co., 1906), by Georg Brandes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Seven Joys of Reading (New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1916), by Mary Wright Plummer
  • multiple formats at Indiana
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Matters of Fact: Reading Nonfiction Over the Edge (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1997), by Daniel W. Lehman (PDF at Ohio State)
• Books Alive: A Profane Chronicle of Literary Endeavor and Literary Misdemeanor (New York: Random House, 1940), by Vincent Starrett, contrib. by Christopher Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Introduction to Library Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1933), by Pierce Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Queer Books (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928), by Edmund Lester Pearson (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Peace of Mind: Essays and Reflections, August 1914-September 1917 (London: A. Melrose, 1918) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Northanger Abbey (London: J. M Dent and Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1907), by Jane Austen, contrib. by R. Brimley Johnson, illust. by C. E. Brock (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Sleeping Fires, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg text)

• On the Art of Reading (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1939), by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg text)
• Books and Reading (first edition; London: G. Allen and Unwin, c1926), by W. E. Simnett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Books in General (first series; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by John Collings Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books in General: Second Series (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1920), by John Collings Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Choice of Books, and Other Literary Pieces (London and New York: Macmillan, 1891), by Frederic Harrison
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Inaugural Address at Edinburgh, April 2nd, 1866, by Thomas Carlyle (HTML at Bartleby)
• On the Art of Reading: Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge, 1916-1917, by Arthur Quiller-Couch (HTML at Bartleby)
• On the Choice of Books (with a long biographical essay on the author), by Thomas Carlyle, contrib. by Richard Herne Shepherd (Gutenberg text)
• Through the Magic Door, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)
• Paintings From Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760-1900 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Richard D. Altick (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Literary Taste: How to Form It, With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature (seventh edition, 1914), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)

• Piety in Pieces: How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Kathryn M. Rudy (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• A Sanskrit Librarian Comes to America (1999), by Murari Lal Nagar, ed. by Margaret Ruth Lee (PDF at Missouri)

• Girls in Bookland (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1917), by Hildegarde Hawthorne, illust. by John Wolcott Adams (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Reader's Digest (partial serial archives)
• Appleton's Magazine (full serial archives)
• Good Reading About Many Books, Mostly by Their Authors (full serial archives)

• From Scrolls to Scrolling: Sacred Texts, Materiality, and Dynamic Media Cultures (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2020), ed. by Bradford A. Anderson (PDF and Epub with commentary at De Gruyter Brill)

• Ending Book Hunger: Access to Print Across Barriers of Class and Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2019), by Lea Bishop Shaver (PDF with commentary at bookhunger.org)

• To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence (2007), by National Endowment for the Arts (PDF with commentary at arts.gov)
• The Republic of Letters: Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin on Books, Reading, and Libraries, 1975-1987 (Washington: Library of Congress, 1989), by Daniel J. Boorstin, ed. by John Young Cole (HTML at loc.gov)
• The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture From Consumerism to Control (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), by Theodore G. Striphas (zipped PDF with commentary at thelateageofprint.org)
• The Delicious Vice: Pipe Dreams and Fond Adventures of an Habitual Novel-Reader Among Some Great Books and Their People (second edition; Chicago: The Prairieland Publishing Co., 1918), by Young Ewing Allison (Gutenberg text)
• The Guide to Reading, ed. by Lyman Abbott and Asa Don Dickinson (Gutenberg text)
• A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects (1920), by Arthur E. Bostwick (Gutenberg text)
• The Making of an American's Library (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1915), by Arthur E. Bostwick
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by Theodore Roosevelt
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at Bartleby

• It Goes On the Shelf, ed. by Cuyler W. Brooks (full serial archives)

• Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction (London: University of London Press, c2024), ed. by Karen Attar and Andrew Nash (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain: From Amadís de Gaula to Don Quixote (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), by Stacey Elizabeth Triplette (HTML and PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Books Fatal to Their Authors, by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text)
• Verboden Boeken, Geschriften, Couranten, enz. in de 18e Eeuw: Eene Bijdrage tot de Geschiedenis der Haagsche Censuur (2 parts, in Dutch; Haarlem: W. C. de Graaff, 1881-1882), by A.J. Servaas van Rooijen
  • both parts: multiple formats at Google
  • both parts: page images at HathiTrust
• The Judging of Jurgen (Chicago: The Bookfellows, 1920), by James Branch Cabell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Literary Policy of the Church of Rome, Exhibited in an Account of Her Damnatory Catalogues or Indexes, Both Prohibitory and Expurgatory, With Various Illustrative Extracts, Anecdotes, and Remarks (second edition; London: J. Duncan, 1830), by Joseph Mendham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Roman Index of Forbidden Books, Briefly Explained for Catholic Booklovers and Students (second edition; St. Louis, MO: B. Herder; et al., 1909), by Francis S. Betten
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Roman Index of Forbidden Books, Briefly Explained for Catholic Booklovers and Students (fifth edition; St. Louis, MO, and London: B. Herder, 1920), by Francis S. Betten (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Censorship of the Church of Rome and Its Influence Upon the Production and Distribution of Literature: A Study of the History of the Prohibitory and Expurgatory Indexes, Together With Some Consideration of the Effects of Protestant Censorship and of Censorship by the State (2 volumes; New York and London: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1906-1907), by George Haven Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)

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