expected. A local file could be: ``file://localhost/path/to/table.feather``.
    columns : sequence, default None
        If not provided, all columns are read.
    use_threads : bool, default True
        Whether to parallelize reading using multiple threads.
    {storage_options}

        .. versionadded:: 1.2.0

    dtype_backend : {{"numpy_nullable", "pyarrow"}}, defaults to NumPy backed DataFrames
        Which dtype_backend to use, e.g. whether a DataFrame should have NumPy
        arrays, nullable dtypes are used for all dtypes that have a nullable
        implementation when "numpy_nullable" is set, pyarrow is used for all
        dtypes if "pyarrow" is set.

        The dtype_backends are still experimential.

        .. versionadded:: 2.0

    Returns
    -------
    type of object stored in file
    r