If it's not smaller, and wasn't intended to save paper, why use it in place 
of a more readable type?  I'm nearly finished reading my copy and found it 
difficult. Had to sit in a really good light, and it was tiring to read more 
than a few pages at a time.
Tim Champlin
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Subject: Re: Typeface for Autobi


> >For a good contrast, use your computer's stock of typefaces to set the 
> >same
>>three or four lines of Roman (not italic or bold) in Garamond, Century
>>Schoolbook or Bookman Old Style, and Times Roman.
>
> That made an excellent demonstration. The Garamond does look like it's
> smaller than the others, so that explains why I've read and heard so often
> about the small type in the autobiography -- and why I believed it myself.
>
> -- Bob G.