Throughout New York City, eager readers devoured newspapers as hungrily as the flames had consumed the fuel of the night before.

If just half the stories Ned had heard about Jensen were true, he could be the man eastern readers would devour.

But what did readers devour?

To those who publish them, motivational/sports books are like the Kama Sutra or Sun Tzu's "Art of War": readers devour them, and then march off to success.

Every mob killing had its follow-up; its supposed "inside story" which readers would devour with enthusiasm.

As tabloid readers devour the paid-for reminiscences of the so-called party girls, Christine Keeler and her partner in high life, Mandy Rice-Davies (Bridget Fonda), Profumo is forced to resign and Ward is arrested and tried on charges that he lived off the earnings of prostitutes.

An avid reader, Travis often devoured a novel in a single day.

For example, in Japan, readers voraciously devour manga, their version of graphic novels.