Book Preview: What Your Book Actually Looks Like
Preview in three formats: print book (true to your trim's aspect ratio), e-reader (flowing, like Kindle), and editorial manuscript (double-spaced monospace). Print and manuscript previews are genuinely paginated. Click any paragraph to spot-edit.
Why this is hard
Long manuscripts have problems that short documents do not.
You cannot tell what your book will look like as a printed book or on a Kindle by looking at a web editor. You need to see it in context.
Real pagination requires measuring text and packing it into fixed-size pages. Most preview tools just show a continuous scroll, which tells you nothing about page breaks, gutter margins, or how chapters open.
Preview in three formats. Print book is true to your trim's aspect ratio with genuine pagination: text is measured and packed into fixed-size pages, chapters open on fresh pages, front matter is separate, the table of contents has dot leaders and computed page numbers, and folios sit at the bottom. E-reader is flowing, like Kindle. Manuscript is double-spaced monospace on US Letter. Click any paragraph to spot-edit it right in the preview. Full-window mode fills your screen and scales pages up while keeping exact proportions.
You choose the format. You can spot-edit any paragraph. You can enter full-window mode. Changes save as new chapter versions.
What other Inkloom features interact with it
Typography
Choose from 110 book typefaces with job-based metadata. Preset templates match your book type. Open-license fonts are bundled and embedded in exports. Your typography follows a semantic scale where everything is a ratio of your body size.
KDP Export
Print presets in all five KDP trim sizes produce single-page PDFs with embedded fonts and gutter margins computed from page count. Kindle export is a reflowable EPUB. Also DOCX, Markdown, and plain text. A readiness check reports what needs attention before you publish.
Chapter Editor
A real rich-text manuscript editor with autosave, full version history, focus mode, find and replace, VS Code-style keyboard shortcuts, a context menu with AI actions, and section-level operations. AI proposals arrive as side-by-side diffs. Your text is never overwritten.
Relevant educational articles
What Is Book Typesetting?
Typesetting is not formatting. It is the craft of arranging text on a page for readability, aesthetics, and print production. Here is what typesetting actually involves and why it matters for your book.
How to Format a Book for KDP
KDP has specific formatting requirements for print and Kindle files. Getting them right the first time saves rejection emails and rework. Here is what KDP actually wants.
KDP
Seven keyword slots. A+ content modules from the manuscript.
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