spacing fonts for book

When I typed my novel to send to agents, I used "expanded" font, but I now wonder if I use self-publishing, it should be "normal" and will it still be easy to read? It's garamond 11.

Sure would cut down on the page numbers.

Ken, there were 110,000 before I kept editing, but it's not far from there. I've seen the place to set the line spacing just not played with it. I know there's something about 6 and 12 but not *what* it is! Guess I need to study it. And I meant the spacing between the letters being expanded not the line spacing.

zpeteman, I'm sure you've heard this before, but your book is certainly intriguing! And the readability is great, but I only have Word to work with so would Garamond 10 look the same as your typeset? Ironically, my characters have a newspaper in 1922 so I did a lot of research because I was a total blank on presses of the time. But I just scratched the surface I know. And also it looks like you have double line spacing. Or is that just my eyes? The Garamond 11 is in the template from Lulu for a 6X9 that's why I have it. I guess I could print it out to check. But again, it's the spacing of the letters that I meant, and on Word and printed out for a mss. the expanded to me was easier to read.

Captain Jack, trouble is it looks great in your photo but how does that compare to what it really looks like? And isn't 17 a little wide? Or I guess not with 12.5 font.

At least, thanks to all of you I'll better know how to experiment to find what I think works for me. And I truly appreciate it.

Well, maybe I may be wrong again, but wouldn't printing it out on a laser printer set with a 6 X 9 size give me some idea? I know it's not gonna match the createspace printer but...

Here are two more questions [when I was a child I was always chided for asking too many questions--I didn't pay any attention. ]

When I had Windows 98, I used Helvetica because I like it; but on Windows XP2 I can't find it. Is it hidden somewhere?

And I found a fancy font I wanted to use sparingly, called Pirouette, and it's downloadable but I didn't know how or something. No instructions. It may have been royalty free which I now know means pay only one time; but the font is listed on several sites. Have any of you every heard of it? Or do you know of a signature [?] font that's somewhat ornate on XP?

Thanks.