10 Inalienable Rights of the Reader according to Daniel Pennac:

1. The right to not read,
2. The right to skip pages,
3. The right to not finish a book,
4. The right to reread,
5. The right to read anything,
6. The right to "Bovary-ism," a textually-transmitted disease,
7. The right to read anywhere,
8. The right to sample and steal ("grappiller")
9. The right to read out-loud, and,
10. The right to be silent


Daniel Pennac, Comme un roman (Paris: Editions Gallimard/Folio, 1992)