Not really. At least not in the right state of mind but probably could during a game. It is actually the wrong question to ask about "pure reading" because you mostly need to decide how to play it correctly and then you can figure that way out; I don't think it helps to start from the premise that it must be read out rather than deducted or just seen. If you decide black can fight to win the ko then it is not so hard to read that out but if this is inadequate you can consider alternatives. Conversely you could decide black can't or doesn't need to fight the ko and if that is inadequate try something else. Trying to brute force this without trusting your instincts is just too difficult to be practical.

I think this is the solution but too long to not put in a hide block and maybe others like to think about it before reading replies.

If black is going to win the ko fight you'd play like this as far as I can tell.

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As it turns out black doesn't win the ko fight and we must also check if we can create a more favorable trade than losing the ko after fighting for it. Instead we assume white can win the ko fight and use smaller threats to force a trade on our terms when white ignores the ko threat. This however turns out to be about the same as fighting the ko (see next diagram). In that case we can just as well see if white plays the ko correctly before making the trade. For example make the small ko threat after white uses the second ko as a threat because that seems like something white could play incorrectly because it is necessary to use the threat of a new ko before exhausting the treats needed for the new ko.

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It looks like black loses by 0.5 points.

I think you are forgetting that while exhausting the ko threats in your first series of diagrams,

However(!), that means that Black cannot answer the ko capture in the upper left and must connect in the upper right. Luckily, Black 13 below is big enough to win. If White answers it, she has no ko threats left. If both sides capture on the left side, Black wins. Therefore the original "subtlety" in the thread name seems to be using the second largest ko threat first and keeping the largest in reserve. If Black starts with B5 instead of E7, he will lose the game.