In reply to Gandhi bookstore gives typeface for free:
Digital Elektra printed offset is a good example of a light type that, with careful handling, can be both very attractive on the page and very readable.
Assuming you mean both Electra, and printed direct-to-plate, I rather disagree. Willing to investigate thought, so if you've got a title in mind, I'd like to take a look.
One of our customers adopted Electra as a core font, and I increased the weight a bit. But this was quite some time ago, with a (PostScript) repro > negative > plate workflow, and just the other day I was thinking it needed more weight with DTP.
Of course, I'm more or less trying to approach the feel of Marshall Lee's book...
Edit: usually printed offset on Nature Natural
Or maybe I'm just out of it, but I did do a search for Elektra...