Texts, books, and readers: which kind of cultural history? / Martyn Lyons -- Bible reading and related mental furniture / Patrick O'Farrell -- Reading 'Aboriginal' art / Peter Sutton -- If mother caught us reading ...! impressions of the Australian woman reader 1890-1933 / Martyn Lyons and Lucy Taksa -- Cultivating the armchair reader; the circulating library movement in Melbourne 1930-1960 / John Arnold -- The Lane Cove Book Club remembered / Kevin Reid -- The Bookstall novel: an Australian paperback revolution 1904-1946 / Carol Mills -- Courting the reader: Australia's Author's week 1935 / Maryane Dever -- Reviewed any good books lately? / Myfanwy Gollan -- Questions about newspapers / Ken Inglis -- Reading Victoria's newspapers 1838-1901