The subject of this paper are reading groups, their history and operating practices in United States of America, Great Britain and Slovenia. Paper focuses mainly on their purpose and the way they work. To better understand the communication process between adult readers, literary texts and mediators the paper also includes relevant theory from didactics of literature, andragogy and reading development by Appleyard. Paper also presents the results of a qualitative empirical research that was going on in Ljubljana city library and included facilitators and members of their reading groups.
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