Lector
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service A public lecturer or reader at some universities
Reader
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A person who reads a publication.A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.A proofreader.A university lecturer below a professor.A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.A literary anthology.A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.A device such as a card reader or microfilm reader.A newspaper advertisement designed to look like an news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
Example sentence: Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.