"Yeah, you were busy reading and anyway it wasn't worth wasting breath on."

I'll get busy reading so you may have these quickly-was Philip barely heard the remark.

He pointed without looking, because he was busy reading.

But visitors may not pay them much heed; they'll be too busy reading.

He did not have time to get married again, as he was so busy reading.

The blind need something to look at when they're not busy reading.

Is there another reason why the lines might show a busy reading?

A male attendant was, like the woman downstairs, busy reading.

A middle-age man started making conversation with an elderly woman who was busy reading and clearly not interested.

For the next week almost everyone was kept busy reading from suitably chosen books.