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The purpose of the article is to generalize the research of the Russian historians and book specialists in the area of definition of the book culture term. The author analyses the basic definitions of the notion, which were formulated by the Russian specialists; and also observes the content and structure of the book culture, defines its basic elements. There is substantiated the necessity of inclusion of the components of the reading science into the book culture. The author gives some arguments concerning the need of further continuation of the research on the definition of the notion and describes the perspectives of such research.