Web Readibility for Long Pages

most readable font?

[old_expat]

A published writer just me the first chapter of a yet-to-be-published book for a preview on my topical website.

The read is several screens high and I was wondering if I should set the font for that page to serif style fonts.

I heard somewhere that they are more readable.

Opinions?

[old_expat]

""The long reads are the book chapters and an author isn't going to appreciate my playing around with his prose.""

"I though the issue was to do with the layout of the prose, not the content of it."

Someones suggested, or I took what they wrote as suggesting .. that I go so far as to shorten sentences.

I have included some extra white space between paragraphs.

[anax]

Can you suggest some color codes for off-white, near-black that work well?

I use #FCFCFC

It's almost a subliminal difference - you wouldn't even notice it unless you set it against a pure white page. But it has the effect of reducing the glare of #FFFFFF.

[jcbradley]

can someone give me the css command to set my line spacing at 1.5em

Thanks,

Chris