The article aims to persuade readers of an idea based on the notion that the act of
reading can be and is heavily influenced by methods, habits, socio-economic status,
the fact whether it is done privately or in the open. On the one hand, there is a professional
reader — student, teacher, writer. On the other, there is reading privately
for pleasure. My interest and area of expertise — so to speak — is mostly the effect
the act of reading has on "a private reader", such as the dark side of identity issues,
existential problems.