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I've books over 100 years old. The physical book, not just the content. The paper is better on most pre-1940 hardbacks than any paperback I have more than 30 years old.
Decent fonts don't get tired out.
I agree that Verdana for headings is better than Arial, which isn't bad for what it was designed for, lower than 200 dpi san-serif body text. Georgia is far better than Time New Roman, as long as the dpi is better than 150. The Times New Roman, like Arial is designed for lower dpi screens.
Lots of people with larger HD res screens, or low resolution "Netbooks" or cheap tablets are on less than 150 dpi. Some are on less than 125 dpi. My 2002 laptop is 133 dpi 1600 x 1200. We went backwards with 17" 1920 x 1080 and 17" 1366 x 768 or worse laptops.
Verdana, Arial and Georgia are still fine. Perhaps Times New Roman for smaller size text.
Then there are the various fonts on Android and ereaders, but if a fallback sans, serif etc is specified then something sensible is usually rendered.
I still read paper books as well as ebooks. I convert long websites or multiple sites on the same topic into LO Writer and apply my own styles. Extra Save As in docx and then Calibre to epub.
There are plenty of nicer serif fonts than Georgia, but they need good quality paper printing, Neither POD or my 300 dpi ereaders are good enough, though the laser printer is fine. My own Brother laser printer is much better than POD I've had from anyone. However now we proof even PDF for paper print on 23″ 4K screen and a Kobo Elipsa. I might get an Amazon/Kindle Scribe to proof PDFs if people think it's not too silly, or wait till Kobo also does 300 dpi eInk. The 227 dpi is not quite good enough. I might also print 8 pages (4 sheets) in duplex on the Laser printer at actual size to check registration through a page is working.
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