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Some "heavy" modifications made to the article. By no means is a lectern a strictly (or even principally) religious object. However, as they are commonly found in places of religious worship, I have left the segment on their religious use in the article. However, the categories were edited to reflect the fact that it is by no means its principal role (I've left Category:Religious Objects to reflect the fact that it is indeed commonly used as such). Edward Grefenstette 10:36, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In the book "Red Mars" (1992) by Kim Stanley Robinson, a lectern is referred to as a device that one can store books, display books for reading, record and playback audio notes and look up data on what seemed like a wikipedia of sorts. Is at all a common use of the word or just the writer's imagination. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fadumpt (talk • contribs) 23:04, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Use by politicians/corporate leaders/conference speakers[edit]

Lecterns are often used by politicians and corporate leaders when they appear in public by speakers at conferences. Such lecterns may be emblasoned with various national, political, corporate or organisational insignia and may serve to signify the status of the speaker rather than be a platform to read from. Indeed, the politician may not be reading and may be giving a speech from memory or they may be using a teleprompter. Politicians may also take questions from behind it.

This is not mentioned and probably should be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.112.80.53 (talk) 10:30, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]