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Readboy
Readboy (读书郎) is a Chinese smart learning device maker founded in 1999 in Zhongshan, Guangdong, known for student tablets and listed in Hong Kong since 2022.
Reader (academic rank)
Reader is a UK academic rank above senior lecturer and below professor, often described as a professor without a chair, awarded for distinguished original research; several universities now replace it with associate professor.
Reader-response criticism
Reader-response criticism: literary theory locating a text's meaning in the reader-text transaction; founded by Louise Rosenblatt (1938), developed by Fish, Iser, and the German reception-theory school.
Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest, American general-interest family magazine founded by DeWitt and Lila Wallace, first issue February 1922; condensed articles, once the world's largest-circulation magazine, now a Trusted Media Brands brand publishing about six US issues a year.
Readers–writers problem
The readers–writers problem is a classical concurrency problem, posed in 1971 by Courtois, Heymans, and Parnas, in which readers share a resource while writers need exclusive access.
Readiness 2030
Readiness 2030, formally ReArm Europe Plan/Readiness 2030, is the EU's March 2025 defence financing plan to mobilize up to €800 billion by 2030 via SAFE loans, fiscal flexibility, and EIB support.
Reading
Reading: deriving meaning from written text through decoding and comprehension. Covers the history of oral versus silent reading, the National Reading Panel's five instructional components, the phonics debate, learning poverty affecting 70% of 10-year-olds in low- and middle-income countries, and falling US NAEP reading scores, distinguishing it from general literacy.
Reading and Leeds Festivals
Reading and Leeds Festivals: twin UK rock and pop festivals held simultaneously each August bank holiday. Reading dates to the 1961 National Jazz Festival, settled in Reading in 1971; Leeds was added in 1999 at Temple Newsam, moving to Bramham Park in 2003.
Reading comprehension
Reading comprehension: extracting and constructing meaning from written text. Also called text comprehension; central model is Gough and Tunmer's Simple View of Reading (1986), R = D × C, product of decoding and language comprehension, with strategy instruction and NAEP score trends defining the field.
Reading F.C.
Reading F.C., the Royals (formerly Biscuitmen), English club founded 1871 in Reading, Berkshire; Football League member since 1920; two Championship titles (2005/06 record 106 points, 2011/12); owned by Redwood Holdings since May 2025.
Reading Fightin Phils
Reading Fightin Phils (R-Phils, Fightins), Double-A Eastern League affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies since 1967, tied for MiLB's longest affiliation; play at 1951 FirstEnergy Stadium, Reading, PA; 2026 league champions.
Reading Frames
Reading frames: the three possible codon groupings (six per double-stranded DNA segment) by which a nucleotide sequence can be translated; set by the start codon, disrupted by frameshift mutations, and deliberately shifted by programmed frameshifting.
Reading Hospital
Reading Hospital (Reading Hospital and Medical Center) is a 697-bed nonprofit acute care hospital in West Reading, Pennsylvania, flagship of Tower Health. Founded 1867-1868 as the Reading Dispensary; Level I trauma center since 2005, Level III NICU, Drexel-affiliated teaching hospital.
Reading Rainbow
Reading Rainbow: American PBS children's literacy series, premiered 1983, produced by WNED-TV Buffalo, hosted by LeVar Burton, 155 episodes to 2006, Peabody and 26 Emmys, revived 2025 with Mychal Threets on YouTube.
Reading the Mind in the Eyes test
The Reading the Mind in the Eyes test (RMET) is a psychology task in which a participant infers a person's mental state from photographs of the eyes alone.
Reading, Berkshire
Reading, Berkshire: Thames Valley town and unitary borough at the Kennet-Thames confluence, 182,907 residents, major UK tech and insurance center, M4 and rail hub, Saxon origins and 1121 abbey.
Reading, Pennsylvania
Reading, Pennsylvania: county seat of Berks County in the Schuylkill Valley, founded 1748 by Thomas and Richard Penn, incorporated as a city 1847, population 95,112 (2020), former home of the Reading Railroad.
Readings in Database Systems
Readings in Database Systems, the "Red Book," is an edited anthology of classic database research papers in five editions (1988-2015), edited by Stonebraker, Hellerstein, and later Bailis, used in graduate database courses.
Readline Bio (瑞德林生物)
Readline Bio (瑞德林生物) is a Chinese synthetic-biology company founded in Shenzhen in 2017 by Liu Jian, using enzyme engineering to manufacture green ingredients for personal care and biopharma.
Readline Biotech (瑞德林生物)
Readline Biotech (瑞德林生物) is a Chinese synthetic-biology company founded in Shenzhen in 2017. It uses AI and biocatalysis to manufacture active ingredients, including semaglutide and cosmetic peptides.
README
A README is a text file at the top of a software project that explains what the project does, how to install and use it, and how to contribute.
Ready (रेडी) (2011 film)
Ready (रेडी) is a 2011 Hindi romantic comedy directed by Anees Bazmee, starring Salman Khan and Asin, remaking Srinu Vytla's 2008 Telugu hit; it earned about ₹185 crore worldwide on a ₹40 crore budget and was declared a blockbuster despite poor reviews.
Ready (రెడీ) (2008 film)
Ready (రెడీ) is a 2008 Telugu romantic comedy directed by Sreenu Vaitla, starring Ram Pothineni as Chandu and Genelia as Pooja, with music by Devi Sri Prasad; released 19 June 2008, it won three Nandi Awards and was remade in Kannada, Tamil, and Hindi.
Ready at Dawn
Ready at Dawn was a video game studio founded in 2003 in Tustin, California by ex-Naughty Dog and Blizzard developers, known for Daxter, the PSP God of War games, The Order: 1886, and the Lone Echo VR series; Meta acquired it in 2020 and closed it in August 2024.
Ready Jet Go!
Ready Jet Go! is a PBS KIDS animated series (2016–2019) created by Craig Bartlett in which alien boy Jet Propulsion from Bortron 7 and Earth friends Sean, Sydney, and Mindy learn space science, with NASA astronomer Amy Mainzer as science advisor.
Ready or Not (2019 film)
Ready or Not (2019 film) is a black comedy horror film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. It stars Samara Weaving as a bride hunted by her wealthy in-laws.
Ready or Not (Fugees song)
Ready or Not is a 1996 Fugees single from The Score, sampling Enya's Boadicea and the Delfonics; UK number one for two weeks in September 1996, not a US single.
Ready or Not (video game)
Ready or Not: tactical first-person SWAT shooter by VOID Interactive, set in Los Sueños. Early access Dec 2021, 1.0 Dec 2023, consoles July 2025; 13 million sold, Team17 split and 2022 Steam removal controversies.
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is a 2026 Searchlight horror-comedy sequel to Ready or Not (2019), directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, starring Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton, released March 20, 2026.
Ready Player One
Ready Player One is Ernest Cline's 2011 debut science fiction novel about Wade Watts hunting an Easter egg in the virtual OASIS for James Halliday's fortune; adapted by Spielberg in 2018, with a Ready Player Two sequel film in development.