<hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="color(0E101A)" xml:space="preserve">Digital Social Reading, a term proposed by Rebora et al. (2021), is described as "a wide variety of practices related to the activity of reading and using digital technologies and platforms… to share with other people, thoughts and impressions about texts" (Pianzola, forthcoming). This study will dive deep into the world of Indian Digital Social Reading practices, thus filling the gap in current global discourse. Aesthetic experience, central to reading as an </hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic color(0E101A)">activity</hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="color(0E101A)" xml:space="preserve">, forms the basis of aesthetic judgement of a literary text. Therefore, it is essential that our understanding of </hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic color(0E101A)">how</hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="color(0E101A)" xml:space="preserve"> reading happens also includes some empirical analysis of its </hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic color(0E101A)">aesthetic properties</hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="color(0E101A)" xml:space="preserve">- the foundational "units" of aesthetic judgement. Combining these two strands, this study aims </hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="underline color(0E101A)">to conceptualise a theoretical framework of aesthetic properties (AP) of reading fiction in the context of Indian Digital Social Readers by employing an embedded mixed-method approach</hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="color(0E101A)" xml:space="preserve">. </hi>