The phrase "acceptable reading" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a text or material that meets certain standards or criteria for comprehension or appropriateness.
Example: "The professor provided a list of acceptable readings for the course, ensuring that all students had access to quality materials."
Alternatives: "suitable reading" or "appropriate reading".
Literary standards were set at what was deemed acceptable reading for 14-year-old schoolgirls – whether or not they could, or would want to, read it.
Just this year, new electronic reading devices have emerged from Amazon, Samsung and Fujitsu, while mobile phones like iPhone from Apple have flowered seemingly overnight into acceptable reading devices for many bookworms.
While the plays of French Classicism, written for the court theatre, proved uncongenial to the German middle class, the moral weeklies provided acceptable reading material for Gottsched's audience and contributed to the establishment of a middle-class public opinion.
Again -- male protagonists are seen as the default, and thus provide acceptable reading for all genders.
Maybe you remember the stories and you might have seen yourself in some of them - women flush with desire waking their husbands up in the middle of the night, women secretly reading the books on their ipads in carpool line (or in the office, in the shower), women hiding the book inside the covers of what felt like more publicly acceptable reading materials.
If five minutes passed without obtaining an acceptable reading, the measurement was considered attempted but unsuccessful.
It's fairly obvious that, because of the way gender roles are assigned in our society, this question mostly pertains to teenage girls who are worrying about what constitutes an "acceptable" (read: non-slutty) number of boys to have kissed, so the remainder of this column is addressed to you, teenage girls of the world.
But this incident wasn't about sex as much as it was about race and the prevailing fact that, in order to succeed, non-white people of all genders are still consistently being told they must shape themselves into a more acceptable (read: more Caucasian) form.
...Your offer to resign more than ten months from now is not acceptable," read the letter, obtained by The Times.
A minimum acceptable read length is 25 bp.
The range [ Δ L, Δ U ] defines the acceptable read depth, and Γ defines the maximum allowable number of reads whose mate-pair aligns in an inverted orientation.
