| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading o... | Christopher Thomson | Robert Boyle | Boyle's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After dinner by water, the day being mighty pleasant and the tide serving finely - I up (reading in Boyles book of Co... | Samuel Pepys | Robert Boyle | Experiments and considerations touching colours | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, and there to write down my Journall, and so to supper and to read and so to bed - mightily pleased with ... | Samuel Pepys | Robert Boyle | Experiments and considerations touching colours | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I to boat again and to my book; and having done that, I took another book, Mr Boyles of Colours, and there read where... | Samuel Pepys | Robert Boyle | Experiments and considerations touching colours | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Being weary and almost blind with writing and reading so much today, I took boat at the Old Swan, and there up the Ri... | Samuel Pepys | Robert Boyle | Experiments and considerations touching colours | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'But I fell to read a book (Boyle's "Hydrostatickes") aloud in my chamber and let her talk till she was tired, and vex... | Samuel Pepys | Robert Boyle | Hydrostatical Paradoxes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So I homeward, as long as it was light reading Mr Boyles book of "Hydrostatickes", which is a most excellent book as ... | Samuel Pepys | Robert Boyle | Hydrostatical Paradoxes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so with very much pleasure down to Gravesend, all the way with extraordinary content reading of Boyl's "Hydrostat... | Samuel Pepys | Robert Boyle | Hydrostatical Paradoxes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so walked to Barne Elmes, whither I sent Russell, reading of Mr Boyles "Hydrostatickes", which are of infinite de... | Samuel Pepys | Robert Boyle | Hydrostatical Paradoxes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then my wife and I to my chamber, where through the badness of my eyes she was forced to read to me, which she do... | Elizabeth Pepys | Robert Boyle | Some considerations touching the style of the Holy Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home and my wife read to me as last night, and so to bed' | Elizabeth Pepys | Robert Boyle | Some considerations touching the style of the Holy Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there hired my wife to make an end of Boyles book of Forms tonight and tomorrow' | Elizabeth Pepys | Robert Boyle | The origin of formes and qualities | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an e... | Elizabeth Pepys | Robert Boyle | The origin of formes and qualities | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an e... | William Battelier | Robert Boyle | The origin of formes and qualities | Print: Book |