A work of scholarship which is also highly readable... people fall in love with this book".
My translating these experiences for myself into English has also made them readable for people abroad.
Perhaps this style would make the book more readable for people who don't read very much as the chapters are short, but I read a lot and still greatly enjoyed the book.
It sounds like Wikipedia, but instead of arranging by articles, it is more of an almanac, organized like a database, and readable by people and software.
Having read the book amid its "initial craze", Craig commented, "it's one of those books you just don't put down" and "there's just this immediate feeling that bad things are going to happen and I think that's part of why they've been so readable for people".
Each country will pick its own manufacturers, in the hope that its chips will be readable by other people's machines, and vice versa.That may not happen in practice.
By treating many aspects thematically rather than strictly chronologically, he shows in fewer than 400 pages of readable type how people and nations have faced the same problems over and over and often solved them the same way.
Try to look in a mirror to see if your face is readable (like if people can say if you're sad, angry or wacky...)...
For example, much of the public sector's data, often collected as a by-product of its administrative activity, is published in machine-readable formats that people struggle to assimilate.
But objectivity normally implies some degree of realism, and while Beckmann paints scenes that are easily readable as consisting of people and things in varying situations, their content is far from obvious and requires us to give the fullest rein to our powers of intuitive comprehension.
Although written for the layperson, it's not one of his breezy, readable case histories of people with strange ailments such as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
