Definition of "nonreading"

Their slanted representations, and even the selective acceptance practised by scientists who were also devout Catholics, produced a variety of readings and even nonreadings of Darwin's texts which obscured the science behind the theory.

2001, Dale J. Pratt, Signs of Science, page 33

Then why, he was asked, did he write a book that seems to justify nonreading?

2007 February 24, Alan Riding, “Read It? No, but You Can Skim a Few Pages and Fake It”, in New York Times‎