It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books.

My teenage boys, who devour books by the stackfull, grew up reading both dreck and classics.

When I was young, I used to camp out in my room in the smallest of towns in northwest Indiana and devour books.

Now the Russians who read about the Proletariat were very much like the people who remain at home and devour books of travel.

Instead, he devours books, page by page, becoming instantly smarter with every chewed word.

He devours books and magazines, retains what he reads and memorizes as never before.

I began devouring books on Tasmania's wilderness and the history of its wild West Coast.

This appreciation Mary Adams possessed by inheritance from her student father who devoured books with an insatiate hunger.

Godwin devoured books, and had a remarkable faculty for gaining solid information on any subject that took his fancy.

Even his own father had not understood this son, who devoured books as ravenously as his dogs devoured salmon.

He devoured books from his local East End libraries - Jack London, Dickens, Emile Zola, Mark Twain, Pushkin and Dostoevsky.

She devours books like Sue Macy's Wheels of Change, which charts the role that cycling has played in the women's rights movement.

She enjoyed reading like nothing else and devoured books at an astonishing rate, not that, Norman apart, there was anyone to be astonished.

Where is the happiness of devouring books with no attempt to profit by them, except in the temporary pleasure of satisfying an appetite?

She, too, devoured books, but she did so many other things besides that people forgot the idiosyncrasy, or were willing to overlook it.

Because I had tons of things to take care of, including spending a lot of my free time devouring books in the school library.