Is the red one past tense? (user search)
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« on: September 16, 2020, 07:23:09 PM »
No, it's actually the infinitive form "to read", but with the "to" dropped (as it sometimes is).  If you substitute that form in the sentence, the meaning may be more clear to you:

...there was nothing much to do in the evening but to read.
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