In this paper, contributions and results of the research project entitled Reading practices: approaches, voices and gazes II are presented. In this sense, it seeks to investigate school literary reading, based on the contributions of Chartier (1999), from three perspectives that complement each other: the selection of reading materials; the editing and distribution processes; and the practices that actually take place in classrooms and libraries. It is an interpretive scientific research that is carried out from a qualitative approach with the purpose of contributing to the development of the field and practices in the training of readers. It has been possible to reach the conclusion, from the analysis of various devices, that there is a distance between the reading protocols that are deployed in the texts and those that are evidenced in the practices.