Books Everyone Should Read
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15 Mar 2011David McCandless aggregated over 15 "top 100" reading lists to see what the consensus is.
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2 Responses to Books Everyone Should Read
David
March 15th, 2011 at 17:51
Does anybody know what font-size v. font color v. font translucence indicates?
Tim
March 16th, 2011 at 10:07
There’s not any “translucence” that I can tell.
Size is how important it is – So To Kill A Mockingbird is most important book, along with C&P, Hitchhiker’s, 100 years, etc. whee as A Farewell to Arms is relatively less important (relative to size comparisons).
Colors are just to help differentiate titles for aesthetics – no value assigned, if they used Wordle – just to help it not be a monocolor overwhelming layout.