Different types of readers can be distinguished:
1. the imagined reader: the author's assumption of the actual reader,
2. the intended reader: the author's conception of the implicit reader,
3. the explicit reader: the fictitious reader who is addressed in the actual text,
4. the implicit reader: the reader as determined by the character of the text,
5. the ideal reader: the most competent reader for a given text,
6. the actual reader (like you when you read this!),
7. the archereader: an archetypical abstraction from a number of actual readers.
Cornelius Holtorf, “The Reception Theory of Monuments,” c. 1995