Audible receives the digest at midnight each night, at which point professional night-owl readers record them.

But I was a professional reader.

Earthscan is an English language publisher of books and journals on climate change, sustainable development and environmental technology for academic, professional and general readers.

To develop a model, e-rater must be trained on 450 to 500 essay responses scored by two professional readers based on a rigorous scoring guide.

"If you ever decide to leave the ministry," Mr. Hijuelos said, "you could all become professional novel readers."

Copious and polemical footnotes exhaust even a professional reader's patience.

The site offers electronic galleys to "professional readers" such as book reviewers, journalists, librarians, professors, booksellers, and bloggers.

He often takes on the task of editing the work himself and uses professional readers and other editors to assist in the process.

The mourners went to the tomb and a fiki, a professional holy reader, especially hired for the occasion, chanted the appropriate verses from the Koran.

It is a must for professional and casual readers alike.