[Sca-cooks] Spiral Bound or Perfect? One Book or Two

[Susan Lin]

I know I would prefer a larger font size (and I HATE Times).  I am one of
those that needs to take my glasses off to read and put them on to do most
other things.  A larger font size would allow me to be reading and doing
without all the glasses flipping (yes I know bi-focals would help but I"m
not ready to go there).  Smaller font size would not help me.

Shoshana

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:38 PM, David Friedman <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com>wrote:

> Another question--font size.
>
> Past editions of the _Miscellany_ were 12 point Times. I'm currently
> working with 11 point times. Looking at our _Joy of Cooking_, it's pretty
> clearly smaller than that. Would people be uncomfortable with text at 10
> point or 9 point? Text at 10 or 11, ingredients lists at 9 or 10? Would they
> prefer the smaller font sizes, because of getting more on each page? Smaller
> fonts don't reduce the price by much, given the cost structure, but they do
> make layout easier for lists of ingredients.
>
> A related issue is page size. It turns out that the cost of the book
> depends on the number of pages but not, surprisingly, on the page
> size--which is an argument for using the largest page size (8x10) and double
> columning instead of something like 6x9 and single columning. Do people find
> a large book less convenient to hold and work with? More convenient?
> --
>  David/Cariadoc
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