Or was he reading too much out of his own perceptions?

He might have been reading out of the police report.

"You read to me about it out of the paper."

He did not like, his sister said, reading out of small books.

He began to read to me out of the Bible.

She just reads stuff out of her book, or says it by heart.

Or better yet- "Why don't you just read it all out of my mind?"

The text should also make sense when read out of context.

Perhaps in the same way as reading things out of a newspaper to friends sat around on a Sunday morning.

She also has the ability to read things out of books like her father.