This is a report on a readership survey carried out among the students at the London School of Economics in the beginning of 1960. The survey was carried out by a group of third‐year sociology students under the direction of the writer. The primary purpose of the study was to give some practical research training to these students, as part of their course. The survey does not, in some respects, come up to professional standards since on‐the‐job training and lack of experience inevitably produce shortcomings, but the results are none the less worth having, and yield interesting comparisons with results of earlier readership surveys among students.