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"devouring books" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a phrase that describes someone who reads a lot or reads quickly and eagerly. It can be used when talking about someone's reading habits or preferences. Example: She spent all weekend devouring books, finishing three novels in just two days.
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Almost instantly he was praying five times a day and devouring books on Islam.
"I attended my own night school every evening, devouring books on investing, economics and high finance.
Indian readers, particularly young ones, have been devouring books on business, management, careers and money in recent years.
He's working out and, for the first time in his life, devouring books, from junk novels to biographies.
We don't have to upset our mental digestions, devouring books we find unpalatable just because other people love them.
Devouring books she supplied, Mr. Echols, who grew up in near poverty, became an erudite, self-educated man and a professed Buddhist.
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In America, I read American novels and spent my spare time in public libraries, devoting the summers to devouring book after book.
He devoured books on magic.
He devoured books on entrepreneurship.
I just devoured books.
A perpetual student of life, he devoured books on American history.
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