Can you nominalise a verb for specific subjects by adding a noun after the verb in ている form?


Assuming "学校で読んでいる本は簡単なの?" translates as "Are you finding reading books at
school easy?", is there a general nominalising rule here?

From another question about [こと and
の](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/1395/what-is-the-difference-
between-the-nominalizers-%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8-and-%E3%81%AE?lq=1), it's clear
that the generalised act of reading would be 読んでいるの. Since 読む can take a
direct object with を, it would follow that adding a noun that can be read like
本 or 新聞 allows you to be more specific.

How far can this be taken? For example, if I like reading books and
newspapers, could I say "読んでいる本と新聞はすき"?

Is this correct and how is the rule actually formulated?




I find a close translation of that to be, "As for the books that you read at
school, do you find them easy/simple?"

That is, the base sentence is 本は簡単なの "Are the books easy?", and 学校で読んでいる is an
adjectival clause describing the books—they're "reading at school" books.

But I'm still pretty new to Japanese, so there might be more nuance than that.




I find a close translation of that to be, "As for the books that you read at
school, do you find them easy/simple?"

That is, the base sentence is 本は簡単なの "Are the books easy?", and 学校で読んでいる is an
adjectival clause describing the books—they're "reading at school" books.

But I'm still pretty new to Japanese, so there might be more nuance than that.

