Why do many emphasize lines in books and scribble in the margins, while others look on in horror at the slightest negligence? And what secrets keep the shelves of the home library of each of us? Everyone is annoyed by the need to put books on the shelf in two rows? "Reader on the Couch" is an ironic and funny almanac of reading habits and deep mechanisms that make our relationship with books almost erotic and at times neurotic. This book is dedicated to psychotic readers and neurotic readers: • those who are gripped by longing, if they have to borrow a book, and those who promise themselves not to yawn during reading; • polyamorous readers, absorbing several books in parallel, or, conversely, monogamous readers who do not touch the new book, until they finish what they started, even through pain and tears; • those who is ashamed to say that he has not read this or that classic, and to those who expose this aspect of their reading biography as an integral part of the rebellious spirit.