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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Read·ing, a.
 1. Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
 2. Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.
 Reading book, a book for teaching reading; a reader.
 Reading desk, a desk to support a book while reading; esp., a desk used while reading the service in a church.
 Reading glass, a large lens with more or less magnifying power, attached to a handle, and used in reading, etc.
 Reading man, one who reads much; hence, in the English universities, a close, industrious student.
 Reading room, a room appropriated to reading; a room provided with papers, periodicals, and the like, to which persons resort.