I've had some luck in reading longer stretches of text, such as 1 - 3 pages of a fiction book / story. In my experience there can be accurate recall and cross-reference within the course of the dream itself, but little or no recall once I awake.
Some examples ...
One key scene in a dream involved my reading a newspaper account of a crime, then relating the newspaper account to a dream-character and interrogating her as to whether she was the culprit (she was ...). I even presented the newspaper and pointed to particular passages and phrases while questioning her. When I awoke the lurid crime scene newspaper photo stayed with me, but I couldn't recall the text details on which the subsequent discussion had focused.
I've had multiple dreams involving a textual list of things that serve as my agenda, with my referring to the list again and again as the dream unfolds. This always falls victim to dream (non-) logic, in the sense that I almost always find items appearing on, and / or disappearing from, the list from scene to scene. Most of the list items stay intact as these changes occur, so it's not an entirely new list every time I glance at it.
In my younger days I often had dreams involving a lecture hall setting, where I would write (and refer back to ... ) notes both during the lecture session and afterwords (in dream time). Some of these scenes involved my reading (and occasionally transcribing) text or figures written on a chalkboard / whiteboard. The text didn't survive waking, but sometimes pictures or figures persisted long enough to recall.
IMHO my most impressive reading-in-a-dream experience involved navigating through an unnamed European city using street signs and a big fold-open city map, all the while cross-referring items between these two things. It was a very long dream experience, and once I'd found my intended destination I used the same textual references to navigate 'back' again. The part I found impressive was the persistence of previously-inspected street (etc.) names on the map, so that I could re-orient myself repeatedly. The graphics and 'actually visible' scenery lingered briefly upon waking up, but none of the text stayed within reach.