List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction. " Enlightenment Everywhere": Locating the Reader in the Scottish Enlightenment -- Part One Encountering Enlightenment -- I. " One of the Greatest Ornaments to a Gentleman": Private Libraries -- II. " A Powerful Means of Improving the Neighbourhood": Subscription Libraries -- III. " Vice and Obscenity Dreadfully Propagated": Circulating Libraries -- IV. " A Taste for Reading in the Country": Religious and Endowed Libraries -- Part Two Experiencing Enlightenment -- V. " This Map of my Mind": Recovering Historical Reading Experiences -- VI. " A Man of Moderate Passions": Fashioning an Enlightened Self -- VII. " That Independency which a Whole Nation had Renounced": Negotiating Scottish Identity -- VIII. " The Patron of Infidelity": Reading Hume and the Common Sense Philosophers -- Conclusion. " Improved and Enlightened by Reading": A Provincial Enlightenment? -- Bibliography -- Index.