Reading for pleasure has been defined by the National Literacy Trust as “reading that we do of our own free will, anticipating the satisfaction that we will get from the act of reading. It also refers to reading that having begun at someone else’s request we continue because we are interested in it”.
The process of reading for pleasure has also been described as a form of play that ‘allows us to experience other worlds and roles in our imagination’ , and a creative activity or active process.