ABSTRACT
There are two senses, one general, one special, to the " h o w " in our basic question, "Who reads what how?" In a general sense, " h o w " refers to the principles that inform all people's reading, and that " h o w " is the big question this book ad dresses. " H o w " in its more special sense refers to the condi tions under which five particular readers did in fact read some short stories, and it is much easier to answer.
