I'd heard that the first known silent reader was Augustine, though apparently it was his patron, Ambrose. http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/classical_wor

I'd heard that the first known silent reader was Augustine, though apparently it was his patron, Ambrose. http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/classical_world/v100/100.1benediktson.html http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/classical_world/v100...