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Originally Posted by Laurens
The main deal-breaker for me is that PDF text looks too faint and "skinny" on the Reader display, especially with serif fonts. I tried many font and weight combinations (regular, bold, semi-bold) and can't find a really satisfying setting.
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Have you looked at typefaces designed for small size or low resolution? Normal faces are usualy designed for 10-12 pts on paper, and don't necessarily work in lower resolution or contrast.
I've been using the Adobe typefaces in the 'Caption' optical size. This is designed for 6-8 pts size on paper, and so is both cleaner and wider than larger designed sizes when set in 11-12pt size. Add to that a sturdy typeface (I like Utopia), and it seems to work fairly well. (Adobe Garamond Premier is blacker than their older Garamonds, and also seems to do.)
I've not tried them on Sony Reader, though -- only the iLiad.