readable

Etymology

read + -able

adj

1. (of handwriting, print, etc) legible, possible to read or at least decipher
   If that sign were still readable we'd know where we are!
2. which can be read—i.e. accessed or played—by a certain technical type of device
   No sale, those aren't readable with my DVD-player!
3. (of a book) enjoyable to read, of an acceptable stylistic quality or at least functionally composed
   These assembly instructions aren't readable, I still don't have a clue how to start!
   This is a masterly work of condensation, omitting nothing of importance and providing a most readable book that for a modest half-crown is incredibly good value. 1962 October, “New Reading on Railways: Great Western. By Cecil J. Allen, Ian Allan. 2s 6d.”, in Modern Railways, unnumbered page
   A god's blue fire gone, the man is left like a page in the grate, apparently unchanged. ~\shgray, granted, and somewhat curled at the edge, but readable. Readable, he thinks. Lintil the passage— cat's paw?—-backwash?—-up the chimney? 2012-10-03, Richard Kenney, The One-Strand River: Poems, 1994-2007, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →OCLC, page 155