/lit/ - Literature

>>4057600
If you could find the file online, I don't see why it'd be different than any other .epub or .pdf.

>>4057546
You mother fucker you were in the last thread too.

>>4057544
Garamond, Caslon, Palatino, Avant Garde, Optima, Candara, Joanna, Swift, and Quaadrat should be good on an e-ink screen.

>>4055327
>hyphenating that
Also, I'm kind of curious as to how working in finance effects your choice of fonts. Do you get chewed out if you use a good font?

>>4055285
Tasteful.

>>4055265
>The only thing I know about typefaces is which ones my prof. lets me use
Times is awful. Arial is a poor man's Helvetica, and both Arial and Helvetica (and the others like Verdana) look stupid on paper, e-ink displays, when under about 14pt size, and in large blocks of text.

>>4054848
Especially since Courier is the best utilitarian font on that list besides (maybe) Garamond.

>>4054390
That's almost worse than Comic Sans, anon.

>>4053579
His science is outdated, that doesn't mean it wasn't important.

>>4052363
I kinda dropped video games for other hobbies a while back, I'll probably find them eventually.

>>4052355
It is possible to make a game's story in a way that's impossible to do with other media. I just haven't played that game yet.

>>4052293
>still having the same judgements about video gamers that were around in the 90's
Go to bed dad

Since I don't really buy books (especially paperback, jesus christ), and I have internet access, what book should I read next? Assume that I can get pretty much any book and I haven't read your suggestion. And Finnegan's Wake is a cop-out answer.

>>4052323
No, but you should definitely be at least aware of it.

>>4052230
I forget the author, it was titled Rising from the Plains, though, and it was about the geological-scale history of Wyoming. If it weren't for that book, I may have become a geologist not knowing of how boring they all are.

>>4050378
While I agree with the other critics on your dry presentation of the scene, I don't think you should dump all of your description. Instead, make the pieces of clothing props in the scene. Instead of listing each article, describe them 'in action'. One girl smoothes her dress as she stands up, one guy sticks the rest of the coke into the inside pocket of his jacket, and so on. Unless, of course, the point you're trying to make is that the narrator notices people's clothes rather than who's wearing them, but in that case you've been beaten to the punch by Brett Easton-Ellis. And he did it better.

>>4052261
A lot of people do. I actually prefer the style of sans fonts as well, but they still haven't figured out how to make I and l instantly discernable, and that bugs me to no end.

>>4052202
That was because of font-rendering issues that have been solved by now. And it always depended on the sarif font in the first place, not all of them had the same issues.

>>4052162
I keep my font size too small, parts of letters like to disappear in fonts like that one.

>>4052164
Like most of what Adobe's been churning out, it tries too hard to be artsy. It's readable, though, so it does something right. The lowercase letters are also as a whole worse than the capitals.

>>4052151
I've never used it, then. I'm not huge on the lowercase 'e', for some reason, but I see why publishers like it.

>>4052141
It's a lot harder to misread things in fonts like Courier, but some people can't stand them. I don't really blame them. To be fair, though, a lot of newer mono fonts (like the one you pictured) aren't really different than the fonts they stem from, but they read like total shit.

>>4052119
I figured, it just kinda irks me that it can even get that bad. That's one of the adobe fonts, right?
>>4052126
Hnng. Didn't MS want to start using that one for just about everything?

>>4052095
That depends heavily on the kind of serif you're talking about. I personally prefer serif fonts because they're more readable, and things like the word 'ill' don't look as bad as they do on sans fonts. Some people prefer the design of sans fonts though.

>>4052099
I don't really understand what just set you off.

>>4052101
Some do, like Times New Roman and Garamond, both of which are pretty awful to stare at for too long, but these days the problems that serifs used to cause are pretty much solved.
>>4052109
ew that kerning

>>4052030
I used to use Candara because it's aesthetically great, but now I use mono fonts for just about everything. Screencap related.
>>4052090
You don't want it, it looks like ass in big blocks of text.

>>4052008
Fantasy is a fickle genre, no matter how accurate the list is, you're bound to love some of it and hate some of it.