The Volokh Conspiracy - A Tip for Authors or Publishers Who Send Drafts to Others to Read or Review:

Make them as easy to read and carry as possible. Thus,

If it's a book manuscript, send it double-sided, and stapled or otherwise bound, rather than as a thick stack of single-sided pages.
Print it single-spaced with wide margins, like a published work. There's a reason that this is the way journals and books are published, and the reason isn't just saving space -- my sense is that such text is easier to read. Double-spaced text may be useful when you're expecting lots of interlineated comments, but not otherwise.
Use a proportionally spaced font, both for the text and the footnotes, rather than a typewriter font.

Maybe these are just my idiosyncratic reactions -- please let me know if that's so. But I suspect not; it seems to me that the traditional journal/book layout and format is inherently easier to read than the alternatives I recommenda gainst.

	[Eugene Volokh, June 7, 2007 at 8:04pm] Trackbacks A Tip for Authors or Publishers Who Send Drafts to Others to Read or Review: Make them as easy to read and carry as possible. Thus, If it's a book manuscript, send it double-sided, and stapled or otherwise bound, rather than as a thick stack of single-sided pages. Print it single-spaced with wide margins, like a published work. There's a reason that this is the way journals and books are published, and the reason isn't just saving space -- my sense is that such text is easier to read. Double-spaced text may be useful when you're expecting lots of interlineated comments, but not otherwise. Use a proportionally spaced font, both for the text and the footnotes, rather than a typewriter font. Maybe these are just my idiosyncratic reactions -- please let me know if that's so. But I suspect not; it seems to me that the traditional journal/book layout and format is inherently easier to read than the alternatives I recommenda gainst.