unputdownabilityEtymologyFrom un- + put down + -ability.nounThe quality of being unputdownable.“Better to adapt the slogan of Count Mippipopolous in The Sun Also Rises who, when Jake suggests he should write a book about wine, answers: “All I want out of wines, Mr. Barnes, is to enjoy them,” and say: “All I want out of novels is to be able to read them.” Yet this quality of buttonholing readability, or unputdownability, is an important phenomenon. Some of the very greatest writers have it, a”