What do you consider as reading?

Robert Scholes suggests reading should be "a dialectical search for the truth" (623).

I would not completely agree with this statement because not always the content of what we read will necessarily appoint to some sort of truth. Moreover, the goal of each reading person can be different and not necessarily finding the truth in what he or she is reading. Thus, we should distinguish and take in consideration different categories of readers and readings. It can be reading with educational purposes, with research objectives or either reading for selfentertainment. Let us take an example of journalists who are used to read a lot and in most of cases not to find the truth but to gather information, material, facts as right or wrong as they are and not to look for truth in it. Of course, a philosopher will take everything seriously and "dialectically search for the truth" everywhere, because this is his way to be and to think. But, it seems to me that nowadays most of people read just to get information or satisfaction from a beloved book. That's how our world is just because all people are different. Who would argue with that?