The phrase "abbreviated reading" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a shortened or condensed version of a text or document that captures the main points without going into full detail.
Example: "For those short on time, I recommend the abbreviated reading of the report, which highlights the key findings."
Alternatives: "condensed version" or "summary reading".
In the meantime, he compensated for his abbreviated education by reading on his own, and although his son is a Rhodes Scholar, he is still the most incisive and articulate member of the family.
The surname of his Dutch historian, Diedrich Knickerbocker, is generally associated with New York and New Yorkers, and can still be seen across the jerseys of New York's professional basketball team, albeit in its more familiar, abbreviated form, reading simply Knicks.
"This is an abbreviated, quick read," he said.
The victim also read an abbreviated version of her statement to Turner at the hearing, before he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in a county jail.
In a 2008 paper, the authors had a sample of college students and community members read an abbreviated transcript of a trial.
"I love workin wit yu," the message reads, its abbreviated informality the mark of a friendship that extends more than three decades.
The documents from those meetings read like an abbreviated history of America in the twenty-first century.
The roster of big corporations with employes on such boards reads like an abbreviated blue book of American industry, particularly the most pollution‐ troubled segments of industry.
Second, the texts we have were evidently widely distributed and read, and an abbreviated and simplified version of the 'Prolegomena to Philosophy' was translated at some point into Armenian (our earliest manuscripts date from the 14th century).
One way of understanding what is said here is as an abbreviated argument, which fully specified reads 'that is stealing and stealing is always wrong; therefore that is wrong'.
