The phrase "devote to reading" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when talking about someone devoting their time and effort to reading, such as in this sentence: "The student devoted countless hours to reading in the library in order to prepare for the exam."
They have doubled the time that all sixth graders and some seventh and eighth graders devote to reading and math, and have reduced it for other subjects.
And what painter – who can only expect a minute or so of our attention as we shuffle through a gallery – would not be jealous of the hours, days and even weeks we devote to reading novels?
By using an alternative email, when you're ready to sit down and research and have the time to devote to reading through emails, your travel offers will be there waiting.
Growth in the number of both articles and journals means reports of new developments are increasingly scattered, with no corresponding increase in the amount of time that clinicians can devote to reading.
Clarke's afternoons are frequently devoted to reading.
Unfortunately, virtually the whole training of historians is devoted to reading written texts, so that skill is hypertrophied, while the ability to interpret material objects is underdeveloped.
She was totally devoted to her family, and my father was almost totally devoted to reading a newspaper called Der Tog, which is Yiddish for "the day".
The time and energy spent on crosswords, the Times explains, would be more profitable "devoted to reading an instructive book, or intellectual conversation" - or, again, working.
Getting one up and running takes only about a half-hour, most of that time devoted to reading the safety instructions.
So it may surprise readers to learn that she once aspired to be a medieval historian and that, as she confessed in a recent e-mail message, she's now "almost obsessively devoted to reading both 19th-century history and novels written in the 19th century," even though she's "inevitably disappointed by historical novels" set in the period.
The average working mom spends two hours a day with her children, but only 4.5 minutes of that time is devoted to reading.
